[Sussex] Dual Boot problems

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

All,

I recently installed Windows XP alongside Gentoo on my laptop.

After about two weeks, Gentoo stopped working.

I tried everything and eventually decided to go for a complete 
re-install.  Whe I ran fdisk, I got an error about the Windows XP 
Partition not ending within the correct block.  All the other partitions 
had been shifted too.

I've deleted all windows partitions apart from the Win XP one (I really 
don't want to have to wipe XP and re-install the whole lot...) and 
recreated the Linux ones so that they all have the correct number of 
blocks.  The win XP partition is still outside the block it should be 
in, but as fdisk isn't complaining about the other partitions, I don't 
know if this matters or not.

My disk now looks like this:


hda1 - NTFS (Windows XP)
hda2 - Linux (/boot)
hda3 - Linux (Swap)
hda4 - Extended Partition
   |- hda5 - Linux ( / )


when I try and boot using Gentoo, the config for XP works fine, but 
gentoo fails with the error:

Kernel Panic - not syncing:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,5)


My grub.conf points to (hd0,1) for the kernel-root and (hd0,4) for the 
linux-root.

Can anyone help me out here?

Cheers,

Matt