CurtisBilly
Senior member
I'm a graduate student at MIT (I'm an aero/astro guy, so don't give me a hard time!) and just tried to set up my PC with both an XP and "Athena" install. The current version of Athena is essentially a customized RHEL4 version. So I installed XP first. There is one physical 80 GB hard drive in the machine. I first installed Windows XP with a 60 GB partition, leaving ~20 GB free.
The Athena RHEL4 network install then had an option for "dual-boot" on unpartitioned space which I chose. I then specified I wanted Windows as the default. Now when I select Windows all I get is a screen stuck on:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
I've been trying with Google for the last couple of hours. The following output may be of help:
>more grub.conf
# grub.conf created by Linux Athena installer
default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Linux-Athena
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL ro root=/dev/hda7
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.img
title Linux-Athena (single user mode)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL single ro root=/dev/hda7
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.img
title windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 7650 9732 16731697+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 7650 7715 530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 7716 7781 530113+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 7782 9732 15671376 83 Linux
>more device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb
>df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 15425056 3017624 11623864 21% /
/dev/hda6 521748 4932 490312 1% /usr/vice/cache
none 255872 0 255872 0% /dev/shm
AFS 9000000 0 9000000 0% /afs
I think I should be seeing /boot from the >df command; but I think it is on /dev/hda7
>cd /boot
>df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 15425056 3017620 11623868 21% /
If anyone can help me get my XP install to boot...I'd be MOST appreciative.
The Athena RHEL4 network install then had an option for "dual-boot" on unpartitioned space which I chose. I then specified I wanted Windows as the default. Now when I select Windows all I get is a screen stuck on:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
I've been trying with Google for the last couple of hours. The following output may be of help:
>more grub.conf
# grub.conf created by Linux Athena installer
default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Linux-Athena
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL ro root=/dev/hda7
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.img
title Linux-Athena (single user mode)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL single ro root=/dev/hda7
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-27.0.1.EL.img
title windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9732 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 7650 9732 16731697+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 7650 7715 530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 7716 7781 530113+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 7782 9732 15671376 83 Linux
>more device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb
>df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 15425056 3017624 11623864 21% /
/dev/hda6 521748 4932 490312 1% /usr/vice/cache
none 255872 0 255872 0% /dev/shm
AFS 9000000 0 9000000 0% /afs
I think I should be seeing /boot from the >df command; but I think it is on /dev/hda7
>cd /boot
>df .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 15425056 3017620 11623868 21% /
If anyone can help me get my XP install to boot...I'd be MOST appreciative.
