Windows XP Dualboot freeze

yes9111 · 2010-04-19 04:53:28

Hello Linux gurus!
I installed Arch with Windows XP already on the disk ( / on /dev/sda3, swap on /dev/sda2) and hit a strange problem. While I can choose and boot Arch just fine, Windows XP won't boot. I can choose it and press enter where it will then run the booting commands but it just hangs there!

fdisk -l output

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa8a8a8a8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       54710   439455208+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           54710       54953     1953000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3           54953       60801    46975792+  83  Linux

/boot/grub/menu.lst

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#  for more details and different resolutions see
#  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution 

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0f70793b-b557-4c8f-86ec-d88b10b08b37 ro vga=773
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/0f70793b-b557-4c8f-86ec-d88b10b08b37 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

# (2) Windows
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Selecting Windows XP ends with a black screen that says

root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Adding makeactive and changing root to rootnoverify don't do anything either..
Thanks for your help!

scar · 2010-04-19 05:43:02

edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst as this:

......... CODE .........

# (2) Windows
title Windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
boot

........................

I hope it helps

yes9111 · 2010-04-20 06:29:35

Didn't work
Just adds boot under the message and freezes

Denacke · 2010-04-20 06:35:36

Tried

# (1) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

?

grey · 2010-04-20 13:18:48

Could it be that you accidentally wrote something into the MBR of (hd0,0), e.g. by installing grub into the MBR of the first partition?

Everything else looks ok - makeactive shouldn't make a difference, b/c the windows partition is already active (i.e. has the boot flag set).

Edit: according to http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/51 … 31733.html the command to restore the partition boot sector is called fixboot.

Last edited by grey (2010-04-20 13:31:28)

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#1 2010-04-19 04:53:28

Windows XP Dualboot freeze

#2 2010-04-19 05:43:02

Re: Windows XP Dualboot freeze

#3 2010-04-20 06:29:35

Re: Windows XP Dualboot freeze

#4 2010-04-20 06:35:36

Re: Windows XP Dualboot freeze

#5 2010-04-20 13:18:48

Re: Windows XP Dualboot freeze

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