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From: "Vikram Goyal" <viki@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:19
AM
Subject: Re: Grub
> -----Original Message-----
> From: raxet <maxer1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:23:26AM -0600
> To Shrike
> Subject: Grub
>
>
> > 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.
>
> Its seems your /boot i.e hda2 is 10MB. If so then that's too small.
>
> To boot from your linux boot partition please do:
> sfdisk /dev/hda -A2
>
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> Thus My Computer Chittered :
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