I have now reloaded XP and RH7.2 using fat32 on the XP side and etx3(?) on RH. Works like a charm.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 1/15/02, 8:58:57 AM, "G.Roderick" Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Re-installing an MBR: > Hmm. This is even worse than I expected. I trashed my XP MBA so badly I > had to reload. I am trying fat to see if that improves things. I'll keep > you posted on my experiment. > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > On 1/15/02, 12:37:07 AM, Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding > Re: Re-installing an MBR: > > the way I ended up getting grub and winxp to play nicely was to install > > win2k, this takes over the mbr. I then intstalled linux (debian, doesnt > > default to grub), didn't install a bootloader. booted into linux via > > floppy, installed grub to boot record of hda2. did the dd if=/dev/hda2 > > of=bootsect.lnx count=1 to get the 512b image. > > copied that to a fat partition, in XP copied it to the NTFS partition, > > and edited boot.ini appropriatly, and now NTLDR can load grub. > > however, I know its possible for grub to boot ntldr, because my laptop > > which came with 2k pre installed it works fine. However, its because of > > 1 or 2 seperate things. on the laptop, the 2k partition is fat32 (the > > way it came) and it would appear that IBM installed the bootloader not > > in the mbr, but in the boot record of hda1. so grub is able to install > > into the mbr w/o a problem. I haven't figured out (despite lots of > > playing with recovery mode and fixmbr/fixboot commands) how to get the > > window boot loader to load into the boot record of the partition > > win2k/xp is installed on. > > shaya > > On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:04, Gerry Singleton wrote: > > > > > > > # For installing GRUB into the hard disk > > > > title Install GRUB into the hard disk > > > > root (hd0,0) > > > > setup (hd0) > > > > > > > This will just (re)install GRUB onto the hard disk. > > > > > > May I suggest that you add a section that expands upon the above quote. > > > I encountered problems in the past 24 hours with having a dual boot > > > laptop. I ended up reinstalling XP because GRUB very happily fixed the > > > MBR to point only at Linux and didn't pickup XP. However, that is not > > > the immediate problem. What is the problem is determining whether or not > > > I can use the above command set to re-write the MBR so that it uses my > > > new grub.conf with the NT/Windoze incantation or must I re-install > > > Linux? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > ger > > > -- > > > ________________________________________________________ > > > G. Roderick Singleton > > > Research Information Systems (RIS) > > > University Health Network (PMH(OCI),TWH(TWRI),TGH(TGRI)) > > > Tel: (416) 340-4820 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bug-grub mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
