Hello Sir, I have also faced the same problem a lot of times,but now i am using XOSL boot loader to boot into any of the 9 OS present on my system(redhat 9,FC 2,Mandrake 10,Debian 3,Knoppix,Win2003 server,WinXP,Win98)
I install the boot loader in the installation partition itself(like /hda/dev6)and not on to mbr.And after install i setup xosl to boot the required os. Regards, Rohit Baisakhiya. http://linux.kiraninfotech.com/ Another place to get GNU/linux CD's. > Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote: > > I looked up the link, it has over 150 messages discussing the problem. > > But I am not really clear whether there is a solution for this problem > > or not. I am facing the problem on one of my pcs which has PCQuest 2004 > > Linux loaded, 2 HDDs of 40GB each. Didnt realise there was a problem > > till I read this mail. > > > > Regards > > Saswata > > > > Rupesh wrote: > > > >> On 08/06/04 12:38 -0000, Abdul wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> I have managed to install FC2 on my machine with > >>> Windows2kProfessional installed on it. So its a dual boot machine. > >>> The p= roblem is that, While selecting Windows from the Boot > >>> loader,the system han= gs while chain loading and does NOT load > >>> Windows, whereas I am able to load= FC2. What could be the problem ??? > >>> > >>> > >> > As far as I understand, the problem is with kernel 2.6 and not > just FC2. It (kernel 2.6.x defines disk geometry in a different > way than what windows expect. > > I have found a solution from the net, which worked on my machine > (FC2 and win XP). > > As a super user run sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 > /dev/hda where /dev/hda is your partition where windows is located. > > The original posting is at > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2351&highlight=boot+windows+xp > > Hope this helps. > > sadhu > > > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
