Banzai Posted December 24, 2003 Share Posted December 24, 2003 (edited) Ive ust installed REDHAT and once again its messed up and i cant boot into windows, but i dint format windows, its like it wasnt detected so im going to try and change the boot loader to make it work under /boot/grub/grub.conf, u can see the list of os's and stuff if your running xp with redhat or i think any linux you will see the Title windows thing, could you post all the title windows bit, THANKS DAN ps windows is my first partion if that helps, please post or text quick thanks! Edited December 27, 2003 by Daniel.Teed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 24, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 24, 2003 Sorry, I don't dual boot, but I think you would need to add a new title section that pointed to root (hd0,0) or something... I found two examples through Google: default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-5) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-5 ro root=/dev/hda6 hdb=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-5.img title WinXP rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 and default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img title Windows map (hd1) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd1) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 If you know how you set your partitions up, this should allow you to manually repair grub.conf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortis Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 ok if the previous memo/note didnt help stick in ur old win98 cd and boot from it boot to cd but do not start setup goto command prompt and type fdisk /mbr :) fixed for now all this does it re-write the Master Boot Record. this will only work if you set your grub to be installed on ur mbr the partition with ur mbr is set to active. i'm gonna text some of this 2 u also.. so u know its me. the first words of the texts will be "mieow" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Sorry for being off-topic, but what is this "text" thing? Is it something in the UK only? I feel so stupid... :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted December 27, 2003 Veteran Share Posted December 27, 2003 Uhhh... Texting would be sending a text message on a cell phone, or possibly a blackberry or something similar. :rofl: As for the fdisk /mbr advice, be careful with that, as you will exactly reverse your problem. You will get Windows back, but lose Linux. The better way is to fix the grub.conf file to point to the Win partition. Too bad Windows still thinks it is (and should be) the only OS on your hard drive... :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banzai Posted December 27, 2003 Author Share Posted December 27, 2003 I got it fixed, and was really annoyed it would of worked fine, for some reason when I portioned it for some reason portion magic 8 portioned it in windows, when it normally dose it when I start windows. So I rebooted my computer the portioned was set up active so I installed red hat, got it sorted and worked out how to boot into windows, but I count get into windows itself because that screen that comes up to portion the drive kept coming up with errors then rebooting so i the end i had to reinstall xp, as I cant get the repair tool to work. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volrathxp Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 I got it fixed, and was really annoyed it would of worked fine, for some reason when I portioned it for some reason portion magic 8 portioned it in windows, when it normally dose it when I start windows. So I rebooted my computer the portioned was set up active so I installed red hat, got it sorted and worked out how to boot into windows, but I count get into windows itself because that screen that comes up to portion the drive kept coming up with errors then rebooting so i the end i had to reinstall xp, as I cant get the repair tool to work.Dan Which repair tool did you use? You do know the one on the first screen of Setup is highly broken and does nothing at all right? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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