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27-Sep-2004, 01:33 AM #1
Angry Dual boot Fedora 2 / Win2K
OK here's the situation:

Friend's computer, single 20G HDD, with Win2K and RH9 (10G each).
I have a spare 60G HDD, wanted to upgrade.

Installed the HDD, and used GHOST to clone the 20G to the 60G (kept the Linux partition small, since I was going to wipe it anyway)

What I wanted to end up with:

Win2K by itself on 60G, using entire space
RH9 - upgrade to Fedora 2 by itself on 20G

I did the clone, and booted into Win2K, and everything was fine.
I have the cloned /home directory so I can restore those files to the 20G new install when needed.

I installed Fedora 2 fresh on the 20G (wiping the old win2k and RH9).
That boots OK... but now Win2K doesn't boot!

Used a emerg boot disk, fdisk /mbr.... still won't boot.
Win2K CD, emerg repair mode, still won't boot.
The files are all there, and seem OK (chkdsk found no errors).
NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM, and BOOT.INI all there.
(BTW I used Fedora rescue mode to restore GRUB, and Fedora boots fine... Win2K still doesn't)

So any help, anything I can do to boot into Win2K on the 60G, short of having to reinstall?? (argh)

TIA
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27-Sep-2004, 03:50 PM #2
Place the 60GB hard disk as IDE master and the 20G as IDE slave.
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28-Sep-2004, 02:02 AM #3
Yes that is how it is setup.
That's not the issue.
The issue is Windows bootloader isn't loading, whether the MBR is DOS (format /mbr) or GRUB from Fedora.
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28-Sep-2004, 03:09 PM #4
Give me a favor: boot linux, log as root and post here what you see doing
Quote:
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
I'm looking for something like
Quote:
title windows
root (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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