On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, raxet wrote: > Well I did the right thing I thought. Installed with grub with a dual > boot option for WinXP and RH Severn. > > Here is my fdisk list of partitions: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 1850 14860093+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 1851 1863 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 1864 2058 1566337+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda4 2059 3649 12779707+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hda5 2059 3649 12779676 83 Linux > > grub.conf : > #boot=/dev/hda2 > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > password --md5 (hidden from your view) > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img > title WinXP > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > But it won't boot either?? What did I do wrong... booting of rescue > diskette. grub.conf looks right, however you have installed it in the boot record of your linux partition which doesn't have the boot flag set. So use fdisk to toggle to clear the boot tag on /dev/hda1 and set it on /dev/hda2. If this doesn't work you have probably got some old boot loader stuff in the disk's master boot record - fdisk /mbr used to fix this on windows, though you may have to repeat the above steps afterwards. Michael Young -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
