Bug 476413

Can you please run on the terminal (as root) '/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda', and report the output. Also attach or paste the content of your /boot/grub/grub.conf

This happened on my cousin's laptop and I've asked him to run the commands. 
From what I know, he has a single 150G hard drive, which initially had a single 150G NTFS partition. We used gparted to resize it to 100G and used the remaining 50G for Fedora. 

GRUB was installed to /dev/sda. When we noticed the Windows boot problem, we tried running ms-sys to fix the MBR, but we ended up with no GRUB and no windows, just a blinking cursor.

I'll post the outputs as soon as it's available... Thanks!

Disk Information
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[root@shiFed 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686]# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x89b3acc6

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       12764   102526798+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           12765       19391    53231377+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           19392       19456      522112+  82  Linux swap / Solaris


Contents of grub.conf
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[root@shiFed 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,1)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686)
    root (hd0,1)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=da758c3b-977e-461e-9786-40064cd15846 rhgb quiet
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686)
    root (hd0,1)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=da758c3b-977e-461e-9786-40064cd15846 rhgb quiet
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
title WindowsXP
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

(In reply to comment #3)
> Disk Information
> ****************

Nothing jumps out at me as being wrong with your grub configuration, however I'm inclined to think this is rather a anaconda/grub bug. Gparted resizes from right to left of the partition table, and I don't know how that can affect the Windows boot loader.
Has you tried to re-installed the grub and attempt the windows' boot again? You will need a Fedora rescue disk to do that. Once on terminal (in rescue mode), run '/sbin/grub-install /dev/sda'. Let me know if you need further help booting into rescue mode.

I tried re-installing grub to /dev/sda, but that hasn't helped either.

The only out of ordinary procedure (as compared to a normal install) we followed was resizing the boot partition with gparted and that is why I suspected that it was a gparted issue.

Hi, was this ever solved or at least MBR restored?  I'd like to install F10 on my XP laptop, but I don't want to brick it.

I did a F11 DVD install (over F10) on a dual-boot, single drive XP laptop (ThinkPad T61). Results are as described above:
- F11 is fine
- XP hangs (blinking cursor only)

Some info referenced in comments above is listed below.  I mounted the two XP partitions before doing the "df" command.  I think /media/ServiceV002 contains the XP boot info.

I executed this command in since my /boot is mounted as /dev/sda3, not /dev/sda (didn't help):

  grub-install --root-directory=/ /dev/sda3

The only change was the grub stage2 file:

  diff ./pre-fix/stage2.strings ./stage2.strings
  7c7
  < (hd0,2)/grub/grub.conf
  ---
  > /grub/grub.conf 

Still stuck and would appreciate help getting XP back!

----- some related info ----

[root]# /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15505 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd746a2b1

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         907     6856888+  27  Unknown
/dev/sda2             908        7857    52542000    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            7858        7885      204800   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            7886       15505    57607200    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            7886       15505    57607168   8e  Linux LVM

[root]# df

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_gerry1nho-lv_root
                      54702524   2672916  51474524   5% /
/dev/sda3               197657     22265    165186  12% /boot
tmpfs                   501244       532    500712   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              6856700   6108832    747868  90% /media/ServiceV002
/dev/sda2             52541996  39181692  13360304  75% /media/9A58587D58585A59

[root]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf 

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_gerry1nho-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
#boot=/dev/sda3
default=0
timeout=60
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_gerry1nho-lv_root rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_gerry1nho-lv_root rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img
title Windows
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

Versions of GParted prior to 0.4.4 would many times move the partition start on a resize operation even if the start was not changed.  The details of this problem can be found in the following bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571151

The logic of GParted was reworked so that the resize/move dialog will only move the start sector of a partition IF the space before value is changed.

This problem was fixed in GParted 0.4.4.

Please not that if the start position of a boot partition is moved (by accident, or on purpose) then the user will need to take action to restore the proper boot code and configuration using the operating system boot disks, or other rescue disks.

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