Porrum_doctum
Member
Hi,
I had a working install with grub on the mbr, F9 /boot on the first partition, XP on the second, the rest of Fedora on the third and swap space in the fourth. It booted like a charm.
Today I upgraded to F12 (reformatting P1, P3 and P4 and leaving XP's P2 unaltered). I erroneously put the new grub on the first partition... it was too late to change it by the time I noticed. After the install I tried booting, which failed. Where you'd normally get "Loading grub" and the the grub menu, I got "GRUB" and then nothing. However, with a GParted disk I could boot both OS's fine.
As it was on my mbr before, I tried reinstalling grub to the mbr. I now get a proper grub menu at boot and my F12 boots fine. XP is totally dead. Nothing through grub and nothing with my GParted disk. I read the FAQ here for the umpteenth time, it really is a nice thing, and got to "Troubleshooting XP". I get the blank screen from "After choosing to boot into windows, I get a black, blank screen.", meaning (as says the FAQ) that NTDETECT.COM is causing trouble. I don't however understand how I can fix this with the grabable files. Could someone expand on the procedure, and maybe also on what I can further mess up by messing with these files? I tried googleing the file/error, but didn't get any wiser from that.
One extra thing: I was in the XP disk management tab somewhere along the road and got the XP partition marked active. It might be wrong or it might not, but I cannot change it again in Windows as I cannot boot it. If I'm going to need to use diskpart or fdisk again, I might need some tips there too...
Thanks in advance!
I had a working install with grub on the mbr, F9 /boot on the first partition, XP on the second, the rest of Fedora on the third and swap space in the fourth. It booted like a charm.
Today I upgraded to F12 (reformatting P1, P3 and P4 and leaving XP's P2 unaltered). I erroneously put the new grub on the first partition... it was too late to change it by the time I noticed. After the install I tried booting, which failed. Where you'd normally get "Loading grub" and the the grub menu, I got "GRUB" and then nothing. However, with a GParted disk I could boot both OS's fine.
As it was on my mbr before, I tried reinstalling grub to the mbr. I now get a proper grub menu at boot and my F12 boots fine. XP is totally dead. Nothing through grub and nothing with my GParted disk. I read the FAQ here for the umpteenth time, it really is a nice thing, and got to "Troubleshooting XP". I get the blank screen from "After choosing to boot into windows, I get a black, blank screen.", meaning (as says the FAQ) that NTDETECT.COM is causing trouble. I don't however understand how I can fix this with the grabable files. Could someone expand on the procedure, and maybe also on what I can further mess up by messing with these files? I tried googleing the file/error, but didn't get any wiser from that.
One extra thing: I was in the XP disk management tab somewhere along the road and got the XP partition marked active. It might be wrong or it might not, but I cannot change it again in Windows as I cannot boot it. If I'm going to need to use diskpart or fdisk again, I might need some tips there too...
Thanks in advance!