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I had Fedora Core 1 running on my Toshiba Satellite Pro m15-s405. It was wonderful. However, the laptop came with WinXP pre-installed and all that and for x reason I had to use the Recovery CD.. after that was done, I rebooted the computer and I got the GRUB command prompt... I tried:
(hd0) needs to be (hd0,0) if you want it to boot from the mbr, I believe. The number after the (hdn, ) identifies the partition used by the os. My grub entry is:
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
I am interested in your results because this weekend I was going to use the recovery disks on my M10-S405. I am curious as to why they didn't write a new mbr.
(hd0) needs to be (hd0,0) if you want it to boot from the mbr, I believe. The number after the (hdn, ) identifies the partition used by the os.
You overall are correct, but let me correct something:
(hd0) is the MBR, where grub is right now. That's why it took you in circles.
(hd0,0) is the XP partition's bootsector.
BTW, those recovery disks from various vendors are going to differ, so don't be surprised if yours does something different. These disks are also very inflexible, search the net on how to make your own real installation disk. The Windows setup files tend to be on the hard drive someplace, you can copy them to cd and use them to install.
(hd0) got him back to the same place because it's the MBR, where grub is right now. The bios loads grub from MBR>GRUB chainloads itself from (hd0), the MBR...again & again...
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Problems with GRUB
