Trouble in dual booting XP+RH9 with GRUB 0.93

[Chiu, PCM (Peter)]

Hi,

 

On my DELL P4 1.8GHz 256MB ram PC, I have two IDE disks:

Disk 0: 38GB C: XP, D: and E: are NTFS,

Disk 1: 80GB G: NTFS, H: NTFS, RedHat, RH Swap, free space.

 

I normally use XP on the partition 1 on Disk 0.

 

I have just installed RedHat 9 on the Disk 1, 3rd Partition, and selected

Grub to be the new bootloader.

 

When the RH installation completed and rebooted, the system fails to come up.

 

On the console, it displays:

 

Initialising Intel Boot Agent Version 2.2

Press Control-S to enter into Setup Program ...GRUB

 

then the system hang.

 

I can boot off the RH 9 using a boot floppy it created at the last part of the RH installation.

From the system, I can see /boot/grub/grub.conf contains:

 

default=1

timeout=10

splashimage=(hd1,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)

      root (hd1,2)

      kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20.8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi

      initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img

 

title WinXP

      rootnoverify (hd0,0)

      chainloader +1

 

I followed the GNU Grub manual, and have tried

/sbin/grub-install --recheck /dev/hdb3

 

and the system.map does show all devices fd0, hda and hdb.

 

No joy.  I then added makeactive, and redo grub-install, still no good.

 

It appears that only stage1 is loaded, but it just cannot continue.

 

Any advice from anyone please?

 

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Thanks.