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RE: [edlug] The Grub ate my Boot
There is no point at this time untill i find a solution as to why grub is
killin my windows boot. As things are I cant boot into windows but all my
data is still there.
> You just said that restoring the MBR from the windows CD didn't fix the
> Windows installation. If this didn't work then your windows install is
> broken. Fix that first, then retry GRUB.
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx [mailto:owner-edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx] On
> Behalf Of lists@xxx.xxx.xxx
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 10:06 PM
> To: edlug@xxx.xxx.xxx
> Subject: Re: [edlug] The Grub ate my Boot
>
>
>
> Well I tried booting from xp pro disk and runing fixmbr which didnt help
> windows and of course got rid of grub so after a reinstall of mandrake
> im back at square 1. My system is fine with older versions of grub and
> lilo but seems to be having difficulties with more recent versions. Does
> anyone think this may be as bios problem. My system is a Packard bell
> Ixtreme 6090 bog standard.
>
> Mandrake 9.2 was fine on this system and lived quite happily with xp.
> But I would realy like to run 10 as the hardware recognition seems far
> superior my scanner and webcam even work.
>
>
>
>> dd if=/mnt/floppy/mbr.img of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
>>
>> Ths bs and count are redundant but will save trashing into hda1 if you
>
>> read the wrong file.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 lists@xxx.xxx.xxx wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry to bother you again just wandered how i restore the boot img
>>> that I created with dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/floppy/mbr.img bs=512
>>> count=1 should I
>>> need it
>>>
>>>
>>> > Try booting from the windows cd and using rescue mode. There is a
>>> > tool called fixmbr that should help. Bear in mind you will have to
>>> reinstall
>>> > grub but first you should confirm whether the booting of windows
>>> itself
>>> > can work in the absence of non-(windows)-standard boot loaders.
>>> >
>>> > You should keep a rescue floppy for Linux mind!
>>> >
>>> > It is also worth saving off a copy of your MBR, just to be safe ...
>>> >
>>> > dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/floppy/mbr.img bs=512 count=1
>>> >
>>> > HTH
>>> >
>>> > James
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 lists@xxx.xxx.xxx wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >> [root@localhost paul]# fdisk -l /dev/hda
>>> >>
>>> >> Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
>>> >> 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
>>> >> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
>>> >>
>>> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>>> >> /dev/hda1 * 1 101586 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
>>> >> /dev/hda2 101587 238216 68861520 5 Extended
>>> >> /dev/hda5 101587 113776 6143728+ 83 Linux
>>> >> /dev/hda6 113777 114791 511528+ 82 Linux swap
>>> >> /dev/hda7 114792 238216 62206168+ 83 Linux
>>> >> [root@localhost paul]#
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> > Can you send the output of /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hda too? (as
>>> >> > root). This should list your partition table -- not wipe the MBR
>
>>> >> > or disk
>>> or
>>> >> > anything like that. Bad luck if it does though!
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Ben
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Fri, 30 April, 2004 15:28, lists@xxx.xxx.xxx wrote:
>>> >> >> My drive is a single 120G ide drive with the layout as below
>>> >> >> which
>>> is
>>> >> >> the
>>> >> >> way madrake set it up
>>> >> >> my config file seems to be called menu.lst rather than
>>> >> >> grub.conf
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I have tried adding both rootnoverify instaed of root and in
>>> >> >> the
>>> docs
>>> >> >> the
>>> >> >> example for nt shown has makeactive in it so tried that.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> >> >> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
>>> >> >> 5.8G 1.7G 3.9G 31% /
>>> >> >> none 0 0 0 - /proc
>>> >> >> none 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
>>> >> >> none 0 0 0 - /dev
>>> >> >> none 0 0 0 - /sys
>>> >> >> none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
>>> >> >> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
>>> >> >> 59G 106M 59G 1% /home
>>> >> >> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
>>> >> >> 49G 20G 30G 40% /mnt/windows
>>> >> >> none 0 0 0 -
>>> /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> > Can you provide more information about your HD set up and
>>> >> >> > grub configuration? Windows does not play nicely when it
>>> >> >> > comes to multibooting other OSs.
>>> >> >> >
>>> >> >> > lists@xxx.xxx.xxx wrote:
>>> >> >> >>After a recent install of Mandrake10 I can no longer access
>>> >> >> >>my
>>> >> windows
>>> >> >> >> xp.
>>> >> >> >>Mandrake boots fine but on trying to load windows all I get
>>> is-->
>>> >> >> >>
>>> >> >> >>Booting 'windows'
>>> >> >> >>root (hd0,0)
>>> >> >> >>Filessystem type unknown, Partition type 0x7 chainloader +1
>>> >> >> >>
>>> >> >> >>then it just freezes there I had a similar problem with
>>> >> >> >>fedora
>>> can
>>> >> any
>>> >> >> >> one
>>> >> >> >>shed any light on this. Both grub and lilo used to work fine
>>> >> >> >>on
>>> my
>>> >> >> >> system but with recent versions I seem to be having trouble.
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