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CAnnot boot to Windows XP following fedora install
OK - Newby talking here.
Used PartitionMagic to reduce the WindowsXP partition to 99gb.
Installed fedora into the free space.
All seemed OK - could boot to Fedora and Windows from the dual boot menu(the one that came with Fedora)
Turned computer off thinking "Thank Goodness for that!"
Turned on to boot into windows and received the following on a Windows basic blue screen with Xp logo at the top.
Autochk not present Skipping Autocheck
Screen then goes blank and the following message appears as the box turns off.
"Stop: C000021a {Fatal System Error}
The session Manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of
0x000000003a (0x0000000 0x00000000)
the system has shut down.
I can still boot to Fedora.
Help!
Managed to get it working after changing the boot program(Grub) along the lines suggested by WindowsPuppy. I can't find his message now unfortunately.
Anyway - didn't work at first. Tried again a couple of times and also went into the boot program console. Still didn't work.
Tried again and this time held down the del key to try and interupt the Windows Boot - hey presto! It worked. Was still working when I packed it in last night. I'd still like to find out what actally happened as I'm not convinced that anything I did actually made a difference.
- This is almost identical to what I did -To dual-boot your platform using the GRUB... your "menu.lst" file should look something like this: default Windowstimeout 10# Entry 1: Windows boot.title Windows 98 Second Edition(se)root (hd0,0)chainloader +1makeactiveboot# Entry 2:Linux boot.title Red Hat Linux 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16-22)root (hd0,1)kernel /vmlinux root=/dev/hda3boot
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Posted February 13th, 2005 21:00