[expert] I made a mistake
Hi, I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in DrakeConf-DrakeBoot, I set the boot device from hda to hda1. Now I know I should not set in this way, but I got a problem: The machine can only start linux, not windows even though the windows option is still in the Grub menu and even though I set the boot device back to hda. I don't know how to get windows back, Could someone help me out? Liangyu
Re: [expert] I made a mistake
Liangyu Wang wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in DrakeConf-DrakeBoot, I set the boot device from hda to hda1. Now I know I should not set in this way, but I got a problem: The machine can only start linux, not windows even though the windows option is still in the Grub menu and even though I set the boot device back to hda. I don't know how to get windows back, Could someone help me out? I had this happen when installing a certain distro... looks like you clobbered your W98 boot block on hda1... this should have an "Are you sure?" dialog. I got lucky and found a M$ boot block sitting in /boot (RedHat) which worked for me... I think boot.0340 was the one. There are several *.b and boot.* files in /boot; most of the time they don't contain what they their name implies... If you are lucky, you will find one that will work; but it's really risky. Find a bootable Windblows diskette and have a look at the boot block; if I remember correctly, the hd version is similar. Do NOT try to write a /boot/*.b or /boot/boot.* to your hda1 unless you are pretty certain it is a M$ boot block. Of course, the last resort is to re-install W98... Use at your own risk; provided so that someone might know more about these /boot files... Liangyu -- Pierre Linux: Because rebooting is for hardware upgrades: 4:42pm up 10 days, 6:41, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.07, 0.06 Last reboot reason: Installed new BackUPS power supply.
Re: [expert] I made a mistake
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:22:46PM -0400, Liangyu Wang wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.1 under windows 98 and after installation, Grub provided a menu to choose operating system, Linux and windows. It worked well. Later, I wanted to set windows to be default OS, So in DrakeConf-DrakeBoot, I set the boot device from hda to hda1. Now I know I should not set in this way, but I got a problem: The machine can only start linux, not windows even though the windows option is still in the Grub menu and even though I set the boot device back to hda. I don't know how to get windows back, Could someone help me out? I imagine instead of setting the boot device from hda1 to hda (which probably won't (doesn't) work), you should tell it to boot win by default instead of linux. For some reason I can't get DrakConf to run at this moment so I can't double-check this tho. See if there is a default setting or a * beside one which indicates it is the default... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net // Danen Consulting Serviceswww.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org // MandrakeSoft, Inc. www.linux-mandrake.com Current Linux uptime: 1 hour 18 minutes.
