barry thomas-brown Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 (edited) I managed to install Mandriva One nice and easily enough the other night. However I am stuck on how to set up dual booting. I have Windows XP on one partition with M1 on the other. On start up i am presented with the options to boot with either linux or windows. when i attempt to boot up using windows i get: root (hd0,0) filesysyem type unknown partition type ox7 make active chainloader +1 _ that last flashing dash just stays flashing and nothing happens. I think i probably need to configure something somewhere in GRUB? However when i try accessing menu.lst i can edit but wont allow me to save. I have no idea what to change it to anyway can anyone guide me through setting this up? I am a complete linux noob, only using it for the last mmmm 10hours or so I am using the GRUB menu on start up. this is my partition set up: -------------------------------------- Disk/dev/hda: 163.9 GB 255 heads, 63 sectors/track 19929 cylinders units=cylinders of 16865 * 512=8225288 bytes Disk identifier = ox86828682 Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda1 7649 19928 98639868+ 7 HPFS/NFTS /dev/hda2 1 7648 61432528 5 Extension /dev/hda5 1 1819 8185854+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1828 1528 4888511 82 Linux Swap/solaris /dev/hda7 1529 7648 49158868+ 83 Linux partition table entries are not in disk order ----------------------------------------- this is what menu.lst shows: -------------------------------------- timeout 10 color; balck/cyan/yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxman default 3 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz Boot_Image=linux root= /dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda6 spash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz Boot_Image=linux-nonfb root= /dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda6 initrd (hd0,4)/boot initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz Boot_Image=failsafe root= /dev/hda5 failsafe initrd (hd0,4)/boot initrd.img title windows root (hd0,0) make active chainloader +1 ----------------------------------------- another curious thing, is that i cant save the above menu.lst if i try to edit it, it says make sure u have write access. I am logged in as root user though, or at least i think i am cos i get asked to authenticate 'root' with a password whenever i enter control console. any ideas or help would be appreciated, thanks!!! [moved from Hardware by Greg2 – Welcome aboard. :)] Edited March 23, 2008 by barry thomas-brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry thomas-brown Posted March 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 OK i can edit and save the menu.lst now. any suggestions on what i should change it to? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Here is what mine is in 2007.1. I don't know much about the options listed, but maybe the following will help. Note that the second "windows1" is actually a recovery partition called "Rescue and Recovery" on my laptop. You will not likely need this section. timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hda5 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda5 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 failsafe initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title windows root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title windows1 root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 Try "rootnoverify" instead of "root" in the windows stanza of menu.lst. No guarantee that this will make any difference. It's been a long time since I dual-booted with windows. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 I usually use rootnoverify as well, the only lines you need to boot windows are: title windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 nothing else is required in terms of additional configuration for this - the above is enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry thomas-brown Posted March 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 (edited) hi, thanks, tried that but still no joy. I think it has something to do with not having a boot flag set on teh first partition? here is a link of the progress i have made with this : http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/mandriva-...-need-help.html we are stuck so any further help would be great :) Edited March 22, 2008 by barry thomas-brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 If you want the bootable flag, then you can do it by: su (enter root password when prompted) fdisk /dev/hda a 1 w a is used for the option to set the bootable flag. 1 is used to select the first partition to set the bootable flag (this is number one that you press). w is used to save what we just changed. Now, try and reboot and see if it's any better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barry thomas-brown Posted March 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 hi guys, just letting you know i resolved the issue by getting rid of windows :) thanks for your help, i might try again sometime, but for now i will jump straight into learning how to use mandriva :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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