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[pkaushish Profile]

I have gone through the forum and installed the required rpm but still i am not able to boot vista

this is what i have done with no luck
I am able to mount the patition but not able to boot vista
Vista is installed on /dev/hdb5 (20 gb)

Please Help
Thanks and regards
Prahant Kaushish

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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdb
default=2
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (2.6.9-5.ELsmp)
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
   initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-5.ELsmp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS-up (2.6.9-5.EL)
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
   initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-5.EL.img
title Windows Vista
   rootnoverify (hd0,3)
   makeactive
   chainloader +1


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=================================================================
[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant)

[root@localhost ~]# uname -r
2.6.9-5.ELsmp

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -q --queryformat "%{ARCH}n" kernel-smp
i686n[root@localhost ~]#
=================================================================


i installed
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.9-5.EL-2.1.20-0.rr.4.10.i686.rpm
and
kernel-module-ntfs-2.6.9-5.ELsmp-2.1.20-0.rr.4.10.i686.rpm

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[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/modprobe ntfs
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/filesystems
nodev   sysfs
nodev   rootfs
nodev   bdev
nodev   proc
nodev   sockfs
nodev   binfmt_misc
nodev   usbfs
nodev   usbdevfs
nodev   futexfs
nodev   tmpfs
nodev   pipefs
nodev   eventpollfs
nodev   devpts
        ext2
nodev   ramfs
nodev   hugetlbfs
        iso9660
nodev   mqueue
nodev   selinuxfs
        ext3
nodev   rpc_pipefs
nodev   autofs
        ntfs
[root@localhost ~]#



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[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1        1661    13341951   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2            1662        1916     2048287+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb3            1917        9729    62757922+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5            1917        4466    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb6            4467        5741    10241406    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb7            5742        7016    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb8            7017        8291    10241406    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb9            8292        9729    11550703+   7  HPFS/NTFS
[root@localhost ~]#



[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r
[root@localhost ~]#


[kd1966 Profile YIM]

Did you try:

title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Azzume Linux is on hd0/hd1?

[pkaushish Profile]

I dont understatnd how that's going to work, (hd0,0) is the linux patition not the windows vista.

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Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1 (hd0,0)  *           1        1661    13341951   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2 (hd0,1)           1662        1916     2048287+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 (hd0,2)           1917        9729    62757922+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 (hd0,3)           1917        4466    20482843+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb6 (hd0,4)           4467        5741    10241406    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb7 (hd0,5)           5742        7016    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb8 (hd0,6)           7017        8291    10241406    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hdb9 (hd0,7)           8292        9729    11550703+   7  HPFS/NTFS


[kd1966 Profile YIM]

I know, but it IS the boot drive.... check this out:

http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=78184

EDIT: Basically, you are replacing the Vista bootmenu with the Linux menu, which will have an "entry point" to the Vista boot menu

[pkaushish Profile]

Thanks for the quick responce.
but no go............

rootnoverify (hd0,0)

Error 13: Invalid or unsupportted executable format

press any key to continue..........

rootnoverfy (hd1,0)

->> nothing happens cursor just stays there