I had Windows Vista installed on my computer and created a partition to install Fedora 15. I chose the option to install fedora on any free space, so it should have installed on the empty partition. When I boot up, there are two boot options. Fedora and Other. When I select other, it gives an error:
BOOTMGR not found.
Is there a way to add Windows Vista to the Grub Bootloader by editing the grub menu. I don't know if it will help, but here is what I get when I run fdisk in the terminal:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 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: 0x80000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 321299 160618+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 321300 31776569 15727635 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 * 31776570 583195897 275709664 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 583196672 625141759 20972544 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 583198720 584222719 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 584224768 625141759 20458496 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_mshfedora-lv_swap: 5301 MB, 5301600256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 644 cylinders, total 10354688 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_mshfedora-lv_swap doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/mapper/vg_mshfedora-lv_root: 15.6 GB, 15636365312 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1901 cylinders, total 30539776 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_mshfedora-lv_root doesn't contain a valid partition table
The reason for your error message is the "Other" partition is missing the boot manager that Windows requires to start up. If you fix this then GRUB should be able to chain load the Windows partition. This question will help.
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