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Old 06-06-2004, 04:37 AM   #1
92GTA
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I screwed up installing GRUB, Help!


It looks like I installed GRUB in the wrong place, on my MBR. I have 3 other versions of windows on other partitions and when I select windows from the GRUB menu it just sits there and never load windows.

How do I fix my MBR and where/how is the correct place to install GRUB???

Thanks!

Alex (Newbie)
 
Old 06-06-2004, 04:42 AM   #2
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To remove grub from the mbr you need to:
boot from your xp cd and run fixmbr from the recovery console.

However, I always install grub/lilo to the mbr and have no problem at all. If you are running multiple versions of windows, you need to set grub to point to the windows bootloader and then choose your windows version from that. This has been asked a few times on LQ, do a search for, I think, chainloader and/or bootloader along with grub.
 
Old 06-06-2004, 06:50 AM   #3
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are the windows installs on different partitions or the same partition? if the same then do it xaviers way, else you might be able to configure grub to boot the windows' separately, without the win bootloader.
 
Old 06-06-2004, 09:55 AM   #4
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They are all on their own partition but if I don't use the windows bootloader then it will give me the old NTDLR not found so I have to. I have GRUB configured correctly but it just not finding and loading the windows boot menu. Right now when I try and boot windows GRUB says:

Booting 'Microsoft Windows'

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

then it just stalls...

I'll try and more extensive search of the archives...

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