Dual Boot Fedora 10 and Windows XP with Recovery Partition

[prtsmgr]

Hi I hope this might help someone.

When I received my NC10, I set it up with 2 equal partitions and did the initial recovery
Then I installed Fedora 10 (keeping xp and the recovery partition)
I then discovered that I could not use recovery by pressing F4 at boot
After searching around, I found that by editing the grub.conf file I could add an entry for the recovery partition

This is a copy of my grub.conf file (the last 3 lines are the ones I added)

Code:

# 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 (hd0,4)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.9-159.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.7-134.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=UUID=a52f95a9-ba79-4aee-bc83-7e215650bb00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title Recovery
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

[vletoh]

This definitely did help prtsmgr! I lost access to the recovery solution after installing grub. Never thought of getting access to the recovery solution using grub. Grub rules! Thanks for the tip!!!

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