Re: Request for help debugging this grub problem

2003-09-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
Hello Jon, Your problem isn't with grub, but with ntldr. Can you please post your boot.ini? I guess the relevant line is something like this: c:\somefile=GRUB where somefile is a copy of the first sector of /dev/hda3. I really can't imagine this happening without your intervention, so either you

Re: Request for help debugging this grub problem

2003-09-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
I know it's ugly to reply to myself, but anyway, just a small note - adding an entry to grub (or otherwise changing its conf) doesn't require reinstalling it, unlike lilo. 'make install' in the kernel runs /sbin/installkernel, which in RH eventually runs a program named grubby, which has no

Problem solved - NTLDR using old boot sector file invalidated by RH /sbin/installkernel

2003-09-27 Thread jon
You are saint, a scholar and gentleman - that was exactly the problem. If I had actually bothered booting XP and glanced at the boot.ini file I would have remembered that the NTLDR uses a redirected boot sector, but that was the one thing I didn\'t try. D\'oh. Ok, so the problem was running