[bug #19591] GRUB dual-boot configuration fails with Fedora Core 6

[Ronald Cole]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #19591 (project grub):

I have FC6 and WinXP Pro installed on an Inspiron 8500 thusly:

# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19457.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2              14        2742    21920692+  8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda3   *        2743       19457   134263237+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Command (m for help): q

# rpm -q grub
grub-0.97-13
# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# 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 (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=4
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6debug)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6debug ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6debug.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6PAE)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6PAE ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6PAE.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2933.fc6xen)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
        module /initrd-2.6.20-1.2933.fc6xen.img
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
        rootnoverify (hd0,2)
        chainloader +1


This system would dual boot until I performed a Microsoft Update
and a NAV LiveUpdate last week and rebooted (something I've done for months
and never had a problem with).

It now will only boot into FC6.  When I try to boot into WinXP, grub prints:

rootnoverify (hd0,2)
chainloader +1

and hangs!!  I sure would love to be able to boot WinXP again.  Any ideas on
how to debug this?  I've searched and searched for a week now and have no
clues.

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