BiPolar Posted March 11, 2005 Posted March 11, 2005 Okay, so I tried installing FC3 on my IDE hard drive (which currently has two other ntfs partitions (music and page file). My main sata drive has my XP OS partition, and four other partitions for files, programs, etc. I got fc3 up and running, but now I can't boot windows. It just hangs on the boot (screen says rootnoverify (hd0,0)....) The text that is in the grub.conf. How can I get access to my XP again? THis is what my fdisk -l said: Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 6918 55568803+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 6919 7110 1542240 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 7111 9405 18434587+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 9406 9732 2626627+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 9406 9659 2040223+ 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5738 46090453+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 5739 12113 51207187+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 12114 16907 38507805 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 * 16908 19457 20482875 7 HPFS/NTFS Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eva_Unit_0 Posted March 11, 2005 Posted March 11, 2005 ah, you discovered a nice little "feature" about windows! Apparently, windows MUST be on the boot drive (whatever drive your bootloader is on) and be the primary boot device, or else it will not boot. I fought with that same scenario a few months ago on a friend's box. The only workaround I was able to find was to use lilo instead of grub. You can thank M$ for that one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiPolar Posted March 11, 2005 Posted March 11, 2005 how do install lilo and not use GRUB? <edit> Ok, the problem was I had the wrong partition for my XP boot. It was the fourth parittion, not the first (should have noticed the partition size..DOH!). So everything is fine now. Just have to figure out how to access my NTFS partitions in FC3 now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastvfr Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 how do install lilo and not use GRUB? <edit> Ok, the problem was I had the wrong partition for my XP boot. It was the fourth parittion, not the first (should have noticed the partition size..DOH!). So everything is fine now. Just have to figure out how to access my NTFS partitions in FC3 now. 440499[/snapback] Should be a simple matter of Mounting the hda(x), but don't try writing or changing anything on them!! For safety's sake, set them to be RO even when you are logged in as Root. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiPolar Posted March 19, 2005 Posted March 19, 2005 yeah, i know...although weird thing is i have a problem now. i used to be able to access the mnt/windows folder, but now i can't, i can only do it as root. How do i give myself permission? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastvfr Posted March 20, 2005 Posted March 20, 2005 Ummm....log in as Root and change the permissions?! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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