can't boot into winxp

[CRDANDRIDGE]

Sorry I'm a linux noob....i just installed 11.0 and I can boot into it just fine but I can't boot into winxp...here is the output from fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0907da16

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1           9       72261   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              10       24321   195286140    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5              10         271     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6             272        2882    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/sda7            2883       24321   172208736   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0907da16

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1           9       72261   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2              10       24321   195286140   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-0: 26.8 GB, 26843545600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3263 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: 21.4 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-2: 1967 MB, 1967128576 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 239 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-2 doesn't contain a valid partition table

And the output of df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6              20G  2.9G   16G  15% /
udev                  470M  128K  470M   1% /dev
/dev/sda7             162G  242M  154G   1% /home

Thanks for the help.

[Jonathan183]

Output of fdisk shows no Windows partitions are present ... have you overwritten Windows with your Linux install?

Output of fdisk with Windows partitions would be something like ...

bash-3.2# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x15551555

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         256     2056288+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2             257        2168    15358140    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            2169        9732    60757830    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            2169        3910    13992583+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6            3911        5784    15052873+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7            5785        5915     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8            6872        7509     5124703+  83  Linux
/dev/sda9            7510        8057     4401778+  83  Linux
/dev/sda10           9602        9732     1052226    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda11           5916        6871     7679038+  83  Linux
/dev/sda12           8058        9601    12402148+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
bash-3.2#

[CRDANDRIDGE]

well it looks like windows got deleted so now I want to start over...i want to install winxp first but when i put the disk in it says "reading system configuration" then the pc hangs....how can I get winxp disk to run so I can re-install?

[devils casper]

You have to remove GRUB from MBR. Boot up from SuperGRUB CD ( version 0.9598 ) and select Fix Windows Boot Loader option. It will remove GRUB and Windows OS installation CD will work fine after that.

[dharmveer]

Just Boot from Your Windows CD and repartition the disk(This will automatically overright MBR), such that you leave Enough free space to create swap and root(/) partition and home partition(optional)for Linux Installation.

After you finished with Installing windows proceed with Linux Installation and select manual partition option don't select any proposed or automatic partition options.

[ohgary]

WHy not install virtualbox VirtualBox and run XP as VM session under linux? As long as your not looking at doing alot of heavy gaming it
works fine.

[Jonathan183]

i want to install winxp first but when i put the disk in it says "reading system configuration" then the pc hangs....how can I get winxp disk to run so I can re-install?

You have to remove GRUB from MBR. Boot up from SuperGRUB CD ( version 0.9598 ) and select Fix Windows Boot Loader option. It will remove GRUB and Windows OS installation CD will work fine after that.

Just Boot from Your Windows CD

I suggest you follow the advice given by devils casper above. If you want to wipe the grub code from the mbr or wipe the mbr then you can do this with the dd command take a look here, but using SuperGrub is easier