continuing troubles with Fedora

[Simon Andrews]

On 13 Oct 2009, at 11:01, Paul Williams wrote:

>
> Hello Simon
>
> Here is grub.conf:
>
[snip]

> title  Other
>               rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>               chainloader +1
>
>
> And here is  dev/sda:

>      Device  Boot           Start       End     Blocks     ID      
> System
> /dev/sda1                             1      192     153600      
> 27     Unknown
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
> /dev/sda2                        192     4654     35846231   7      
> HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3                      4655      4680        204800  83      
> Linux
> /dev/sda4                      4681     7296    21013020    5      
> Extended
> /dev/sda5                      4681     7296    21012480  Be      
> Linux LVM

OK, so there's something odd going on here.  Your windows install  
appears to be on /dev/sda2, but there is this small partition before  
it.  I'm not sure what this partition is (anyone else know?), but  
these little partitions are often installed by computer vendors with  
dignostic software or something similar.  I'd guess that you should be  
booting from /dev/sda2 if you wanted to get into Windows.

However - your grub config for your windows boot is pointing to hd0,0  
which would be the small unknown partition.  I'd suggest changing your  
grub.conf so that the boot location was hd0,1 and see if that finds  
your windows installation.

So step by step instructions would be:

In a terminal:

su -c "cp /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.conf.bak"

su -c "emacs /boot/grub/grub.conf"

You should see and editor open up and show you your grub.conf file.   
Edit the Other section to read:

title  Other
               rootnoverify (hd0,1)
               chainloader +1

Select File > Save

Select File > Quit

Reboot your machine, enter the grub menu and select the 'Other' entry  
from the list and see if you boot into windows.


I've used the emacs editor if these instructions since you seemed to  
have problems when using gedit before.  If you don't have emacs  
installed you'll need to do:

su -c "yum -y install emacs"

...in a terminal first.  If emacs works OK for you then you could  
retry the skype installation instructions using emacs instead of gedit.

Hope this helps

Simon.





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