Compaq is pissing me off

[TARogue]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Sarunas wrote:

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> TARogue wrote:
> > I have a Compaq Presario SR1620NX running Windows XP. I used Acronis
> > Disk Director Suite 10.0 to repartition my harddrive and installed
> > Fedora Core 9. Once it was fully installed and configured I rebooted
> > back to the XP partition. I was immediately redirected to "System
> > Recovery"
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> My guess would be that grub entry for Windows XP is actually an entry
> for the system rescue partition. Check your partitions with e.g. 'fdisk
> - -l' and /boot/grub/menu.lst entries with 'chainloader +1'. The root
> (hdx,y) should be pointing to your Windows partition, not to the rescue
> one. In several cases I had Linux installer configure the two for grub
> as 'Windows NT' (which actually is just a system rescue partition ) and
> 'MS Windows XP etc.'
> 
Well, you were right. It was pointing at (hd0,0) instead of (hd0,1)

Thanks for the help!
  Tom

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