Cant boot into Mandriva

I installed Mandriva 2007 just a while ago . The installation was smooth , everything was perfectly alrite until i was asked to reboot the machine once the installation was complete . Now when i rebooted my machine , there was no option to boot into mandriva . I am running Windows XP dual boot with Fedora core 6 . I dont exactly remember what all i did during mandriva installation :mrgreen:. Here is the fedora grub.conf file

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# 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 (hd0,6)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda4
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=6
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,6)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2952.fc6)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
title Windows XP Pro
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

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here is the output of fdisk

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Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1270 10201243+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 1271 9729 67946917+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3 5352 7735 19149480 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 1271 3253 15928416 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 3254 5236 15928416 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 5237 5249 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 5250 5347 787153+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda9 7736 8754 8185086 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 8755 8995 1935801 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda11 8996 9729 5895823+ 83 Linux

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Can smeone tell me how i can edit my fedora grub.conf to boot into Mandriva ?

did you change anything in Boot Loader section during Mandriva installation?
mount / partition of Mandriva in Fedora and post the contents of Mandriva's /etc/fstab file. post the names of files stored in /boot folder of Mandriva too.

I dnt exactly remember if i had changed anything in the boot loader section :mrgreen: All i can say that i chose the first option (i saw 3 options ) in the boot loader section

Here is the output of fstab file

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/dev/hda9 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda11 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda10 swap swap defaults 0 0

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Here is the screenshort of my /boot folder



http://hotimg8.fotki.com/a/195_229/2...reenshot-1.jpg





There are 3 files inside the grub folder

mdv-grub_splash.xpm.gz

menu.lst.example

splash.xpm.gz


:confused:

boot up Fedora, login as root and open /boot/grub/grub.conf file.
add this code at end of file

Code:

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title Mandriva
root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-5mdv ro root=/dev/hda9
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17-5mdv.img

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save file and reboot. Select Mandriva title in GRUB Menu.

tnx mate !! it worked like charm :rolleyes: I owe u a treat :mrgreen:

Glad to help you ! :D