On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Matthew Saltzman <[email protected]> wrote: > So I installed WinXP on an old computer, then repartitioned with > qparted. I added a partition in front of the Windows one for /boot and > one after for a LVM volume. Then I installed F10. I loaded grub in the > boot record of the /boot partition and left the MBR alone. I > re-numbered the partitions so that /boot is sda1, Windows is sda2, and > the rest is sda3. There is no extended partition. > > Now WinXP won't boot. > > Is there a simple way to reconfigure the WinXP side so that its boot > loader works again (without re-installing)? I changed the boot.ini > partition number, but that didn't help.
Just curious, what is the advantage of putting /boot before the XP partition? Did you try booting the XP cd and using the recovery console? I think there are some commands for trying to fix the boot record. -Mauriat -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
