Vista won't boot up

**Zed420** · 12-09-2009

Hi All

Just update my Linux from Fedora 9 to 12 , all went well apart from Vista won't NOT boot up now. I'm getting blank screen and blinking cursor when I'm choosing Vista.

I have grub bootloader here is the menu list file;
any input will be greatly appreciated
Thanks Zed

Code:

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 (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_zaheer-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=1
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora 12 (Linux)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_zaheer-lv_root  LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk rhgb quiet
	initrd /initramfs-2.6.31.6-162.fc12.i686.PAE.img
title Vista
	rootnoverify (hd1,0)
	chainloader +1

**Zed420** · 12-10-2009

Can anyone please help !!!
I have reinstalled Fedora 12 about three times I thought in case I've made a mistake during installation but NO joy still same result. Now I've gone back to Fedora 9 and it's still NOT booting Vista, it was perfectly fine before I upgraded it.

Is it possible that I might have missed up the bootloader ????

Thanks
Zed

**devils casper** · 12-10-2009

Hi and Welcome !

Is it a Two Harddisks setup?
Boot up Fedora and open /boot/grub/grub.conf file with root privileges.

Code:

su -
nano /boot/grub/grub.conf

Add mapping code in Vista block.

Code:

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

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file. Reboot machine.

**Zed420** · 12-10-2009

Thanks devils casper for your reply but unfortunately it did NOT work it gave me an error Invalid Boot.ini

Zed

**devils casper** · 12-10-2009

Post the output of fdisk -l command here.

Code:

su -
fdisk -l

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

**Zed420** · 12-10-2009

Thanks again but this is what I am getting

Code:

fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found

**devils casper** · 12-11-2009

Did you execute su - command to gain root privileges?

Code:

su -
fdisk -l

**Zed420** · 12-11-2009

Is this the output you wanted

Code:

/sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          25      200781   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              26        9729    77947380   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x82938293

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       24791   199133676    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/dm-0: 77.6 GB, 77678510080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9443 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[root@localhost zed]#

**devils casper** · 12-11-2009

Try to boot up Vista without using GRUB.
Set Vista Harddisk as First Boot Device in BIOS.
Try to set it as Primary Master through Cable Select or Jumper settings.

**Zed420** · 12-11-2009

Thanks for your help I'm gonna try that

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