Help this Fedora newb please

[Chicken Boo]

So I finally bit the bullet this weekend and installed Fedora. Last week, for the second time in about as many months, my XP machine crapped out and got stuck in a boot loop, which ended in another re-install. After this first happened I'd begun investigating linux as I was fed up with M$, and quite liked Fedora (couldn't get Ubuntu livecd to even boot).

So now I've installed Fedora alongside Xp. Problem is that the grub boot loader works fine booting into Fedora, but selecting XP just goes to a blank screen and nothing happens. I'm hoping this is a line or two in a config file to change but I don't know where to look - I found a grub cfg file but it says not to edit it.

Any ideas? If I re-install XP (again) would it help?

 

[backstreetboy]

Try in terminal:

su -
(root password)

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

 

[Chicken Boo]

Thanks, I'll try that this evening.

 

[Chicken Boo]

That command didn't work. I've been reading how-tos and whatnot and saw about the fdisk command - when I run fdisk -l it doesn't look like what it's meant to... I think maybe I buggered up the partitions :erm:

I had trouble with anaconda during fedora install, and ended up using gparted to partition manually. It was a 160gb drive, and I split it 60gb Windows, the rest for linux.

This is the fdisk -l output:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd42ad42a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 122882047 61440992+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 122882048 123906047 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 123906048 312580095 94337024 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_local-lv_swap: 2113 MB, 2113929216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 257 cylinders, total 4128768 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/mapper/vg_local-lv_root: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6527 cylinders, total 104857600 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000


Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398843904 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907028992 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4f3e4998

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 64 3907024064 1953512000+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_local-lv_home: 40.8 GB, 40768634880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4956 cylinders, total 79626240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/mapper/vg_local-lv_swap doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_local-lv_root doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_local-lv_home doesn't contain a valid partition table