Description of problem: After installing Fedora 11 I'm not able to boot to Windows any more; all I get is the message: BOOTMSGR is missing. Press Ctrl+alt+Del to restart. I was able to fix the issue by changing t/etc/grub.conf from: title Vista rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 to title Vista rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 so it seems that the code responsible for filling grub.conf picked the wrong hd partition. Please note my laptop has one recovery partition as hd0,0 (but I think that's a fairly common setup): # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xd0fc396e Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 192 4016 30720000 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 * 4016 4042 204800 83 Linux /dev/sda4 4043 30401 211728667+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 4043 30401 211728384 83 Linux
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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With a new Fedora 14 installation, grub gets the expected values, so it seems this bug was fixed in the meanwhile. I'll let this bug die with F12 in one month :)
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.