If you like to try a nice (dangerous? i dont know, to me works fine with w98)
from dos's fdisk: fdisk /mbr This clear the mbr and then you go to grub and try again. Good luck On Thursday 06 March 2003 18:04, Ajay Sharma wrote: > hey everyone, > > I just finished rebuilding my machine and I repartitioned my box so that > it looks like: > > /dev/hda1 = windows xp (ntfs) > /dev/hda2 = linux swap > /dev/hda3 = gentoo (ext3) > > no, I don't have a separate /boot partition. Anyway, I followed the > installation instructions (excellent btw!) and I'm having problems > getting grub to install on my MBR. In the grub prompt, when I type in > "root(hd0,0)" it would come back with something like "unrecognized file > type". After that it's pretty obvious that the "setup(hd0,0)" wasn't > going to work. I then ran root(hd0,2) and that went over fine but now > when I boot up it goes right into windows xp and not the grub boot > loader because it's not installed on the MBR. > > I'd appreciate any help. > > Thanks, > Ajay > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
