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Originally posted by iamroot: Quote: Just enter this command at the terminal. sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda Had this problem a while ago when running a FC2, Win XP config. It's a GRUB problem. hi thanks for this but it didnt work .On giving this on the command line i am getting this. Disk /dev/hda: 4870 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Old situation: Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 0+ 1217 1218- 9783553+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1218 4869 3652 29334690 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty /dev/hda5 1218+ 2435 1218- 9783553+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 2436+ 2448 13- 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda7 2449+ 4837 2389- 19189611 83 Linux /dev/hda8 4838+ 4869 32- 257008+ 82 Linux swap New situation: Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 19567169 19567107 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 19567170 78236549 58669380 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 Empty /dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 Empty /dev/hda5 19567233 39134339 19567107 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 39134403 39343184 208782 83 Linux /dev/hda7 39343248 77722469 38379222 83 Linux /dev/hda8 77722533 78236549 514017 82 Linux swap Successfully wrote the new partition table Re-reading the partition table ... BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy The command to re-read the partition table failed Reboot your system now, before using mkfs If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1) to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1 (See fdisk(8).) when i reboot my system again n try to go XP it is giving me the samething i.e. rootnoverify(hd0,0) chainloader+1 i would be happy if anyone can get me out of this. thaks once again

Hi, I would be very greatful if someone helps me out.I am having dual operating system i.e. Linux and Windows XP ,while trying to boot XP it is giving me rootnoverify(hd0,0) chainloader+1 n it is stopping there. if i boot linux there is no problem.I am very new to linux n donno wat to do,I was just reading the post in this forum. i have a file in my /boot/grub as grub.conf n it contains the following. # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,5) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz password --md5 $1$34ddYNVG$/jyBxa/zvg08mOeCxowoA. title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,5) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img title DOS rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 n i donno wat to change in this. plz help me out.I would be very greatful . thanks.