I messed up grub.conf in Fedora 13 and I'm having a problem with loading Windows 7. After I messed up I booted Knoppix and fixed grub.conf of Fedora.

Now Fedora is working properly, but when I choose to but windows GRUB is reseting itself again and again.

here's my data:

                Boot Info Script 0.55    dated February 15th, 2010                    

============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================

 => Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 
    459771902 on boot drive #1 for the stage2 file. A stage2 file is at this 
    location on /dev/sda. Stage2 looks on partition #5 for /grub/grub.conf.

sda1: _________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       
    Boot sector type:  Grub
    Boot sector info:  Grub 0.97 is installed in the boot sector of sda1 and 
                       looks at sector 459771902 of the same hard drive for 
                       the stage2 file. A stage2 file is at this location on 
                       /dev/sda. Stage2 looks on partition #5 for 
                       /grub/grub.conf.
    Mounting failed:
mount: unknown filesystem type ''

sda2: _________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       ntfs
    Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7
    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:  Windows 7
    Boot files/dirs:   /Windows/System32/winload.exe

sda3: _________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       ntfs
    Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7
    Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
    Operating System:  
    Boot files/dirs:   

sda4: _________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       Extended Partition
    Boot sector type:  -
    Boot sector info:  

sda5: _________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       ext3
    Boot sector type:  Grub
    Boot sector info:  Grub 0.97 is installed in the boot sector of sda5 and 
                       looks at sector 459771902 of the same hard drive for 
                       the stage2 file. A stage2 file is at this location on 
                       /dev/sda. Stage2 looks on partition #5 for 
                       /grub/grub.conf.
    Operating System:  
    Boot files/dirs:   /grub/menu.lst /grub/grub.conf

sda6: _________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       LVM2_member
    Boot sector type:  -
    Boot sector info:  

vg_fedora-lv_root: _________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       ext4
    Boot sector type:  -
    Boot sector info:  
    Operating System:  Fedora release 13 (Goddard) 
                       Kernel on an ()
    Boot files/dirs:   /etc/fstab

vg_fedora-lv_swap: _________________________________________________________________________

    File system:       swap
    Boot sector type:  -
    Boot sector info:  

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ _____________________________________________________

Dysk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, bajtów: 250059350016
głowic: 255, sektorów/ścieżkę: 63, cylindrów: 30401, w sumie sektorów: 488397168
Jednostka = sektorów, czyli 1 * 512 = 512 bajtów
Rozmiar sektora (logiczny/fizyczny) w bajtach: 512 / 512

Partition  Boot         Start           End          Size  Id System

/dev/sda1    *          2,048       206,847       204,800   7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2             206,848   123,852,799   123,645,952   7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3         123,852,800   459,724,799   335,872,000   7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4         459,732,105   488,392,064    28,659,960   5 Extended
/dev/sda5    *    459,732,168   460,141,767       409,600  83 Linux
/dev
    
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This belongs on superuser.com – Tim Cooper Dec 19 '10 at 17:50
Try upgrading grub to GRUB2? – digitxp Dec 19 '10 at 19:01
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