Dual Boot Problem. Grub doesn't offer WinXP as choice

[stry_cat]

I just installed FC3. Everything seemed to work fine. However when booting Grub doesn't offer an option to boot to WinXP.

Before the install, I re-partitioned the disk and successfully booted to WinXP after the repartion. Then I installed FC3 on the free space I made. FC3 works fine.

I found some stuff about needing to boot with Knoppix and run:
sfdisk -d /dev/hda |sfdisk --no-reread -C 16037 -H 255 -S 63 /dev/hda

but I don't know where to find the correct numbers for me and I'm not sure this fixes the problem I have. I think my problem is more of a grub issue than a screwed up disk geometry.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[stry_cat]

oh I should add the WinXP partition is NTFS

[rega451]

Could you post your grub.conf here, that may help.

[imdeemvp]

Try this and see it works for you.

[stry_cat]

Originally Posted by rega451

Could you post your grub.conf here, that may help.

Here it is: (note that I've added the stuff suggested by imdeemvp)

# 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 (hd0,2)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=15
splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC3)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Other
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1
title Windows XP
        map (hd0) (hd1)
        map (hd1) (hd0)
        rootnoverify (hd1,0)
        chainloader +1

[stry_cat]

Now this still doesn't work. It says something about being unable to find the drive

More info...

# /sbin/sfdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 9729 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
  for C/H/S=*/240/63 (instead of 9729/255/63).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 7741440 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1          0+    730     731-   5526328+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2   *    731    4788    4058   30678480    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3       4789    4802      14     105840   83  Linux
/dev/hda4       4803   10336    5534   41837040    5  Extended
/dev/hda5       4803+  10336    5534-  41837008+  8e  Linux LVM

I have one drive, with the following partitions:
Compaq Presario restore partition (hda1).
WinXP (hda2)
The others were all put there by FC3.
I also don't understand the duplicate hda4 & hda5
hda3 I think is /boot

So what now?

In the grub.conf filie, I tried playing with the numbers in the map command. It didn't help.

[bob]

What happens when you try to boot "other". Do you start to boot Win 95? - Dang - why don't I think that's right? Didn't think you could upgrade from 95 to XP. So, were you triple booting?

[stry_cat]

Originally Posted by justol'bob

What happens when you try to boot "other". Do you start to boot Win 95? - Dang - why don't I think that's right? Didn't think you could upgrade from 95 to XP. So, were you triple booting?

Other starts the Compaq Recovery Program.

That got me thinking. I deleted all of the Windows XP section

Then I created a new Windows XP section based on the other. I played with the numbers until it worked!

title Windows XP
	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
	chainloader +1

Thanks for the help everyon!!