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Hiii all I would really appreciate if u can get me out of this one I had installed Fedora 10 recently .I had (and still do ) Win xp on ...
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    Exclamation Stuck with GRUB login screen without Linux kernel

    Hiii all
    I would really appreciate if u can get me out of this one
    I had installed Fedora 10 recently .I had (and still do ) Win xp on my system before that.I wanted both Linux and xp with dual booting.Problem was it was failing to show Win at boot time and booting Linux after a timeout of 10 sec.I had reconfigured grub.conf but to no avail.So i (quite naively) formatted all my Linux Partition in a bid to uninstall it.
    Now the fun started.Everytime i load up first "grub>" login screen appears
    and i have to chainload my windows everytime i strt up my system.
    The commands are
    grub>rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    grub>makeactive
    grub>chainloader +1
    grub>boot

    now i tried what nerderello said so
    i did the folowing
    grub>find /boot/grub/stage1
    (which gives me (hd0,3))
    grub>root (hd0,3)
    grub>kernel (hd0,3)/
    now when i do the above and press tab for listing it shows the kernel img vmlinuz..... but the moment i pass it it gives the following error

    Filename must be either an absolute filename or blocklist
    which is obvious because i formatted the whole linux partition and had left it unallocated..
    So guys can u plz help me out so that i have fedora 10 with win xp in dual booting
    I have the fedora 10 cd by the way..
    Thanks in advance

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    You formatted your Fedora partition? Did you re-install it? If not, it's not going to work because most of the Grub bootloader files will be on the Fedora partition with only one file (stage1) of 512bytes in the mbr. If you have Fedora re-installed and can boot it, run the 'fdisk -l' command as root and post the output here (that's a lower case letter L). If you can't boot Fedora, use the install CD and open a terminal after you load the CD to run the command. The command will give us your partition information and someone should be able to give you a correct entry to boot windows.

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