Before troubleshooting or installing GRUB I suggest you backup your data. You also might want to try adding the makeactive command to your grub config file:
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
makeactive
Sincerely,
Rob Elm
Clark Consulting
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jomy G Joy
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Issue using Grub with WinXP
Hi,
I am having a AMD 2000 XP, machine with 256MB RAM, which has Windows XP and
Redhat Linux 9.0 installed. I am quite a naive user of Linux. I used to use
the floppy to boot into linux before, which was painful. And Windows used to
get booted defaultly.
Few days before, I installed Grub as my boot loader, which I loaded to the
MBR. The installation was done with anaconda, after which the boot process
used to get stuck at "GRUB Loading Stage 2" message. After quite a lot of
Googling, I could get it to work to some extend. The state now is that, I am
able to get into Linux with Grub. But, when I select WinXP for booting into,
it just comes back to the Grub menu screen again. It just continues in this
circle. But, anytime I can get into Linux without any issue.
I have mounted one of the drives of Windows to Linux, which I am able to see
from Linux (Data is still safe!). Please help me in debugging this problem.
I can't afford to lose the data in Windows.
I have one harddisk, which is 40GB in size. It has been partitioned as 10GB
for Windows Installation. 20GB for the second drive for Windows.
And 10GB for Linux.
Command : fdisk -l
====================
Disk /dev/hda: 40GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sector/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = Cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1275 10241406 c Win95
FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1276 4864 28828642+ f Win95 Ext'd
(LBA)
/dev/hda5 1276 3825 20482843+ 7 HPFS / NTFS
/dev/hda6 3826 4798 7815591 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 4799 4863 522081 82 Linux swap
FileName : /boot/grub/grub.conf
===============================
default = 0
timeout = 10
splashimage = (hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Linux RH9.0
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hda6 rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists....... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists....... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists....... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"....... 16 sectors are
embedded
succeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0) 1+16 p
(hd0,2)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf....... succeded
Done
Please help me.
Thanks in adance,
Jomy
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