Dual booting works (in a strange way)

[Fraggle]

Hello,

I have a dual-boot system with Windows XP and FC4.
I can boot to Windows if I tell the bios to boot from hd1. In this case FC4 is not recognized.
If I boot from hd0, I have the same problem but reversed (so Windows isn't recognized).

I would like to be able to boot to both of them without going to the bios every time. Any idea how I can do this?

this is 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 (hd1,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.13-1.1532_FC4)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1


and this is fdisk -l:

Schijf /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 koppen, 63 sectoren/spoor, 14946 cylinders
Eenheden = cylinders van 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Apparaat Boot Start Einde Blokken Id Systeem
/dev/hda1 * 1 14241 114390801 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 14242 14946 5662912+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 14242 14946 5662881 7 HPFS/NTFS

Schijf /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
255 koppen, 63 sectoren/spoor, 4866 cylinders
Eenheden = cylinders van 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Apparaat Boot Start Einde Blokken Id Systeem
/dev/hdc1 * 1 3656 29366788+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc2 4336 4348 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc3 4349 4866 4160835 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hdc4 3657 4335 5454067+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 3657 4335 5454036 b W95 FAT32

Partitietabel ingangen zijn niet in schijfvolgorde

[Vergil83]

try to make the windows entry something like

title other
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

where 0 is where grub is at and 1 is where windows is at

[i2kdave]

it sure seems like a lot of people are having trouble running dual boot with FC4......

[smolloy]

it sure seems like a lot of people are having trouble running dual boot with FC4......

I've noticed that a lot of people I've been helping (or trying to help) with dual boot issues are FC4 users. I wonder why this is??

[Fraggle]

try to make the windows entry something like

title other
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

where 0 is where grub is at and 1 is where windows is at

Thank you. This worked perfectly!!