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Description of problem: 
I bought a brand new Dell Dimension 8200 with Windows XP home edition 
installed on a 40Gb IDE hard drive (with 2 partitions - a 31mb Dell partition 
with utilities and boot info, and the other partition is the XP partition). 
 
I installed a second IDE HD (15Gb) for linux. I setup 12Gb for Linux and 3Gb 
for the Swap Partition. 
 
I chose GRUB for my boot loader during the RedHat 7.3 installation process and 
when my pc starts up, I get a screen with Grub at stage 1.5 and error code 21 
returned.  
 
I did not re-format or re-partition my first drive (the Dell/XP drive), but I 
did re-partition and format my Linux drive. I can boot Linux properly from the 
emergency boot disk (from floppy), but since XP is using NTFS I can't read any 
of the files off of that Drive (to at least salvage some data on there). 
 
My hard drive configuration (as reported by the Hardware Browser) is as 
follows... 
 
device=/dev/hda 
partition(name, start, end, size, type)=hda1, 1, 4, 31, None 
partition=hda2, 5, 4865, 38131, ntfs 
device=/dev/hdb 
partition=hdb1, 1, 1529, 11994, ext3 
partition=hdb2, 1530, 1868, 2659, linux-swap 
 
my /boot/grub/grub.conf file looks like... 
# 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 (hd1,0) 
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1 
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img 
#boot=/dev/hda 
default=0 
timeout=10 
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz 
title WinXp 
 rootnoverify (hd0,1) 
 chainloader +1 
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3) 
 root (hd1,0) 
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb1 hdd=ide-scsi 
 initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img 
 
What's wrong? 
 
Also - a side question - is there any way I can get my linux installation to 
recognize the ntfs file system with my xp files (particularly my mp3 music??). 
 
 
Thanks in advance for your help!! 
 
 
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 
 
 
How reproducible: 
Always 
 
Steps to Reproduce: 
1.Modified the grub.conf file 
2.Rebooted 
3. 
  
 
Actual Results:  Same problem as described above. 
 
Expected Results:  Expected GRUB to boot correctly. 
 
Additional info: 
 
My PC is brand new so there's not much data on it that i want to salvage on 
the XP partition. However, the Linux drive that I formatted was copied over to 
the XP drive so i could have a backup copy of all the files I wanted just in 
case. Now, since I can't even get to the XP drive through Linux (or any other 
means), my old data is inaccessible!!! I might be forced to re-install XP just 
to have a bootable ntfs system and then do a re-install of linux again. I 
don't even know if thatwould help anything!