Dual Boot Headache; XP upgrade killed FC2
Boy am I lost.
SITUATION: disk 1 (hda) W98 disk 2 (hdb) FC2 This worked. Now disk 1 (hda) WXP disk 2 (hdb) FC2 FC2 will not boot, I get a grub prompt and am lost. TRIED: Have tried to use the Rescue disk and can get to the FC2 system. Verified the grub.conf Copied the 512 bytes of the boot sector to a file and placed it on the C: drive Changed the WXP boot.ini. Have tried to boot the FC install disk to get the bootloader to update but it will not let me add anything and then says the boot loader was not updated because nothing was added! I am forgetting something and can't remember what I did to get the setup running with W98. Can anyone help? |
hi there
u need to reinstall grub frm the rescue mode boot into rescue mode then chroot /mnt/sysimage to install grub on ur MBR grub-install /dev/hda regards |
Thanks,
I am terrified that if I do that the WinXP disk (hda) will get fouled up. Is it a requirement that grub go into the MBR? I thought that if I copied the first 512 bytes from the /boot partition on the FC2 disk to a file on the C: drive that the NTLOADer could then call grub? I looked at the W98 steps and if looked like putting grub in the MBR was required then but WXP can load the file then boot FC2. OF couse that is what I have tried and failed. Grub just boots to a grub prompt. |
Grub is your friend
It'll be alright. Everytime I install a distro of GNU/Linux I always choose MBR and everything goes fine. If there are any issues, you just need to boot off a Win98 disk (that's what I use) and use
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fdisk /mbr |
hi there
hda is not ur winxp disk,it is the MBR it is hda1 ur first partition , also u need a bootloader MBR so that u can boot all operating systems if u want u can also look for boot laoder from windows partiton using loadlin http://elserv.ffm.fgan.de/~lermen/manual.txt regards |
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hi there
what i meant was that hda is not the first partiton as understood above my last post and it is the MBR the first 512 bytes that come before hda1,so when we install lilo or grub on hda we mean that we are installing them on the MBR regards |
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