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Old 09-19-2007, 02:27 PM   #1
wally_world
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dual boot gone horribly wrong


Hello everyone im a very very new linux user and i was attempting to run a dual boot with fedora core 2 and windows xp pro sp2. Ideally i wanted to run one hard drive for the windows and make that the primary and then the second one for linux. I installed both and it looked to be working fine but grub would not boot to windows. so i wiped both drives to start fresh. now i cant boot to windows with my startup up disk (it hangs after the hardware inspection) and if i try to boot form the hdd it says grub hard disk error. i can still boot into a linux install using those disks but reinstalling always results in the same grub hard disk error any help would be greatly appreciated,
 
Old 09-19-2007, 02:44 PM   #2
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i had a similar problem some time back. I never got it solved but i figured out that it had to do with the way i was mapping to the hard drives in grub. make sure that your hard drives are properly mapped (mapping to a windows only hd is a little different than a linux hd). sorry for not being too much more specific but i never actually fixed mine so i can only tell what i know. hope that helps though. =^D
 
Old 09-20-2007, 05:30 AM   #3
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When I first set up dual booting a few years ago using on a PC on which I had installed a second hard disc I had a problem setting it up which was solved when I changed the BIOS from autodetecting the second hard disc to actually having a record of the second hard disc.

So I would just check what you have in the BIOS.

It might also help if you posted a bit more about your set up and the contents of /boot/frub/menu.1st

The other thing to do is check out the grub web pages for how to reinstall grub to the MBR. From memory it is something like grubinstall sd0

Last edited by arubin; 09-20-2007 at 05:35 AM.
 
  


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