http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Dual boot issue windows vista and fedora core 9 en Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:49:57 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/dual-boot-issue-windows-vista-and-fedora-core-9#post-34707 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:04:22 +0000 siddharthabhishek 34707@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I have recently installed fedora core 9 along with windows vista home edition when i try to boot windows from the grub i get bootmgr missing message, i tried to repair my vista installation using vista OS CD but while repairing i do see the windows operation system hence i am not able to select the operation system for repair. at the bottom of the same window i get a message "if you do not see your operating system please insert driver cd to install driver related to your harddrive" please help me to find the operating system so that i can repair and get my windows and linux os working again. please note the i have also tried command line command "bootrec /fixboot" but it has also not repaired my windows OS.</p> <p>also note that i have tried getting grub installed using linux installation CD. like going into rescue mode and trying out grub-install /dev/sda. also currently my grub.conf says below for windows<br /> rootnoverify (hd0,1)<br /> makeactive<br /> chainloader + 1</p> <p>when i change root (hd0,1) to root (hd0,4) i get 'grub&gt; ' instead of bootmgr missing message. </p> <p>with the above information pls help me out to get my both the operating systems up and running. please let me know if you require any more information </p> <p>Thanks and Regards<br /> Siddharth </p>