Fedora 6 and XP Pro Dual Boot

[Zephead]

I already had XP Pro installed on my C: and no other partitions were made the whole 160GB was running just Windows so with Partition magic I created a 12GB partition for Fedora 6 and the partition was done correctly and everything worked and then I installed Fedora and that was installed flawlessly and is running 100% stable. But now XP Pro won't boot, in the Fedora boot menu it shows "Fedora Core 6" and "Other" so I pick "Other" and my system just sits there and won't boot anything. Anybody had this happen that can help?

[devils casper]

did Partition Magic decativate Windows Partition? did you install Boot Magic?







casper

[Zephead]

I don't think it did, it didn't say that. I did the install another OS wizard in Partition Magic. What is Boot Magic? I made Fedora the default os to load.

[devils casper]

I did the install another OS wizard in Partition Magic.

this Wizard deactivates Windows Partitions. Boot Magic is Partition Magic's Boot Loader like Fedora's GRUB and it activates Windows after Linux installation.

boot up Fedora, login as root and execute 'fdisk /dev/hda' in terminal/konsole.
press 'a' and type 1. press 'w' to quit.

exit and reboot. check if windows booting up now. in case, it doesn't work, post the output of 'fdisk -l' command and contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf file.






casper

[Zephead]

ok man, I'll try this when I get home today, thanks a lot.

[Zephead]

Ok, this is what I typed in: fdisk /dev/hda a1
This is what it is showing now:

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors



It still won't boot XP Pro.

[devils casper]

no ! you dont have to type 'a1' with command.
execute 'fdisk /dev/hda' and press 'Enter' key
press 'a' at fdisk's prompt. it will ask for partition number. press '1'.
press 'w' to apply changes and exit.









casper

[Techson]

I have XP pro same as him to. I was wandering where do I pick the boot magic thing so I don't miss it in the installation.

[devils casper]

I have XP pro same as him to. I was wandering where do I pick the boot magic thing so I don't miss it in the installation.

dont use Partition Magic. download GParted LiveCD, burn .iso image to disc and boot from it. resize partition. dont foemat newly created space. leave it as unpartitioned/free.
during installation, select 'Unpartitioned/free space for install'. dual boot is default in all Linux distros.
GParted has Graphical User Interface and its free, only 30MB size, very easy to use.
if you are planning to install Fedora Core, check this link too.





Good Luck !
casper

[Zephead]

When I type in "fdisk /dev/hda" it says "unable to open /dev/hda".