Guest igeldard Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 I have a freshly installed XP Pro setup with 20Gb C:\ and another 20Gb E:\ (both NTFS) on a new 80Gb HD on a mobo with a fairly new BIOS (Abi NF7-S). That booted fine. Ive just tried installing Mandrake 10.1 from CD and all seemed to be OK except that now XP wont boot. I installed Grub (0.95) on /dev/hda, but when it boots I get the menu: linux linux-nonfb failsafe windows windows1 Selecting 'windows' I get: Booting 'windows' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 chainlaoder +1 I can boot Mandrake and get into the control centre to look at boot options and can see that my other choices (from a default installation) are: /dev/hda5 /dev/hda6 /dev/hda7 Now where do I go from here? Fix the XP boot with fixmbr or play with they Grub boot options? How can I get both to boot? Ian (UK) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 did you create a separate partition before you install mndk? during the installation, you should been ask to partition manually or automatic, if you choose the automatic, mndk will be the one to decide which partition to use... or maybe those hda5-7 are not mounted, try to mount them from the mcc - partition option = mount points, it should be detected as ntfs if those are still the partitions containing you xp... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest igeldard Posted April 5, 2005 Report Share Posted April 5, 2005 Yes, Mandrake (Community) made its own parts using the automatic setup ... I've now tried to fix XP using fixmbr, bootfix and bootcfg /rebuild. None of them worked. So I reformatted and tried a complete reintstall ... xp made some new parts but now hangs on reboot with a "Missing operating system" message Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 on which partition you've installed XP anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted April 6, 2005 Report Share Posted April 6, 2005 First step here will be to check your partition table. As Aioshin asked where did you install Windows on the re-install. You should have a number of partitions, assuming win c is hda1 and wine is hda2 and then your Linux partitions. You should be able to boot from the Linux disk 1 in rescue and in console run fdisk /dev/hda and print your partition table. Also as a rule if you want to share data between Windows and Linux you should use Fat32, say for Win \E on your setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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