Follow-up Comment #1, bug #19591 (project grub): I have FC6 and WinXP Pro installed on an Inspiron 8500 thusly:
# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19457. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 2742 21920692+ 8e Linux LVM /dev/hda3 * 2743 19457 134263237+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Command (m for help): q # rpm -q grub grub-0.97-13 # 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 (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=4 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.img title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6debug) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6debug ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6debug.img title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6PAE ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6PAE.img title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6xen) root (hd0,0) kernel /xen.gz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 module /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet module /initrd-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6xen.img title Microsoft Windows XP Professional rootnoverify (hd0,2) chainloader +1 This system would dual boot until I performed a Microsoft Update and a NAV LiveUpdate last week and rebooted (something I've done for months and never had a problem with). It now will only boot into FC6. When I try to boot into WinXP, grub prints: rootnoverify (hd0,2) chainloader +1 and hangs!! I sure would love to be able to boot WinXP again. Any ideas on how to debug this? I've searched and searched for a week now and have no clues. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19591> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub