build win98 boot disk which contains sys boot with it. run 'sys c:' reboot
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:06:53PM -0700, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.topic.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jason Thomas Phone: +61 2 6257 7111 System Administrator - UID 0 Fax: +61 2 6257 7311 tSA Consulting Group Pty. Ltd. Mobile: 0418 29 66 81 1 Hall Street Lyneham ACT 2602 http://www.topic.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
