Clive Menzies wrote: > On (02/08/05 13:45), Martin Smith wrote: >> I am new to debian and have just installed sarge on to a 160g sata disk >> on an Asus P5P800, when it came to installing grub I wnt for the choice >> of installing it on that disk but it said it ws not able to, so I let >> it install on the primary master which has win2k, however on a restart >> I just got grub error 17 and then nothing.... >> No problem restoring the windows bootsector and I have installed grub >> on a floppy, but I would rather have it on one of the internal drives. >> Can anyone point me in the right direction to rectify this. > > You need to install grub on the MBR which is the one that normally boots > windows. In your menu.lst you need to chainload windows and make sure > that the kernel and initrd.img are correctly referenced. > > Can you post the output of: > > cat /boot/grub/menu.lst > cat /etc/fstab > ls -l /boot > > Or check the following out: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Introduction.html > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/grub/grub.htm > Thanks very much, I found a cleaner solution, I removed the windows disk and did a clean reinstall, amazing, in 40 minutes I had a working desktop, I may add the windows disk back to the machine later, but for now this is just fine -- martin
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