Trying to Dual Boot with Fedora 2
I recently installed Fedora 2 on my machine, which has two hard drives. The first has Fedora, while the second has Windows XP. I set up the grub.conf file for dual booting, as was recommended in the Fedora 2 Bible, but it just won't boot to XP.
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hdc,0)
chainloader +1
Has anyone else here had this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Roy
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 09:54 — 26th January 2005.
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No, I've set up dual boots numerous times, including a couple of times with FC2.
Does it boot FC2 even if you select Windows XP in the grub menu? Or do you get an error or blank screen or reboot?
Check that the Win XP partition is indeed at hdc,0 -- you haven't simply used the example values in the book, I hope?
rtroxel posted this at 01:44 — 27th January 2005.
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The Windows hard drive is at hd2.
I tried adding this configuration to grub.conf:
title Windows XP
map (hd0) (hd2)
map (hd2) (hd0)
rootnoverify (hd2,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
And it wiped out the Windows XP boot sector!
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 01:57 — 27th January 2005.
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title WinXProotnoverify (hd2,0)
chainloader +1
Should really be all you need. I've never had to play with mapping...
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