I did something really stupid and would like the advice of this list and its expertise.
The stupidity: I installed an inferior bootloader and in the process of restoring GRUB, I issued both 'grub-install hda' AND 'grub-install hda1'. hda1 is my windows 98 SE partition! The result: Now, I can get GRUB to load linux fine but the 'grub-install hda1' command wrote GRUB to my windows partition. Now, when I select my windows partition from the GRUB menu, it says 'GRUB loading stage2...' for a SECOND time (as it already displayed that right before the GRUB menu as it should) and then it hangs. So My windows partition is unbootable. My questions: -Does anyone think it is possible to recover from this mistake? -What did 'grub-install hda1' do to my windows partition? -Did it write over the files necessary to boot windows? -I can still mount my windows partition so the data is there... just unbootable. -Is it possible to add a feature to grub-install that does 'fdisk -l <drive>' and asks for confirmation if it thinks that the user is an idiot like me? (if grub-install had said, "you are about to install GRUB on the first partition of hda which seems to be a FAT32 filesystem... are you sure you want to do this?" I would have declined.) Thanks for any help, Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------ Joseph Lorenzo Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Graduate Student astron.berkeley.edu/~jhall Astronomy Department 601 Campbell Hall voice: (510) 643-8592 University of California at Berkeley fax : (510) 642-3411 Berkeley, CA 94720-3411 face : 753B Campbell _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
