From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: Installed Fedora Core Test 2. Can happily boot into Fedora, but I am now unable to boot into windows XP Section taken from grub.conf title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 When this option is selected, grub starts and Fedora boots fine but trying to boot Win XP, the following prints to the screen: rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader+1 (blinking cursor) I have tried using the windows XP recover console, and runing fixboot and fixmbr, but even after runing these I'm still unable to run windows. After running these I reinstall grub using recovery mode from the fedora disks, which lets me boot Fedora again. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have windows XP installed 2. Insatll Fedora Test 2, (leaving all options as default) 3. Try booting from Windows XP Actual Results: Fedora boots fine but trying to boot Win XP, the following prints to the screen: rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader+1 (blinking cursor) Expected Results: Windows Xp should start Additional info:
I'm thinking this is a duplicate of Bug# 115980. This still hasn't been resolved (to my knowledge).
This just happened to me with Fedora Core 2 Test 3! It's not fixed.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115980 ***
Make your default boot loader NTLDR Make the linux.bin with -- one-line command-- dd if=/dev/{bootpartition} of=/mnt/windows_root_c/Linux.bin bs=512 count=1 --- command end ---- edit C:\boot.ini and add line: C:\Linux.bin="Fedora Core 2" set active boot partition to win partition
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.