[samson_crazy16]

I am a engineering student and for study purpose i installed linux on my computer.
I dont know much about linux, but i wanna learn it.

Now Let Me tell you my problem in brief:

I have a p4 (2.40Ghz) machine
I have two 80GB IDE Hard Disks (Samsung) .


Now On the master hard disk i have installed Windows Xp.
And the master hard disk is entirely formatted by NTFS Partitions.

The I brought The Red Hat Enterprise Linux-5 Dvd.
I formatted the slave Hard disk with the Linux DVD Utility Program (Disk Druad)
And I also installed Linux On it sucessfully

Now the problem is that when i boot from my master HDD windows Xp works fine
BUT WHEN I BOOT FROM SLAVE linux is not getting loaded. (Even though its properly installed).

This is what the system reports me:

File system type unknown, partition type 0x7
kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.e15 ro root=/dev/VolGroup 00 / logVol 00
Error 17 : Cannot Mount Selected Parttion

Guys plz help me out with the solution

[khafa]

hi,


if you have a Live CD can you boot with it and report the output of the next command

fdisk -l

(its a small L (-l))

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Did you change boot priority of Hds before RHEL installation? Does GRUB menu appear at startup?

I would suggest you to re-install RHEL. Unplug Windows OS HD and plug-in other HD as Primary Master. Re-install Linux and plug-in Windows HD as Secondary/Slave after Linux Installation.
Boot up RHEL, log in as root and open /boot/grub/grub.conf file.
Add this code at the end of file :

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

Save file and reboot machine. Select Windows XP title in GRUB Menu.

Above method is safest way for setting up dual boot in Two HD setup. If anything goes wrong with one OS or HD, other OS will boot up fine.