On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 16:50, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.08.17 23:50, oom wrote: > > You shouldn't need to recover the bootrecord, in fact you should be > > able > > to set grub up to boot your XP partition, not sure how you have your > > partiation table layed out (give us an fdisk -l /dev/hda). > > Unfortunately, the problem that Vincent is having (and I have had in > the past) is that he accidently wrote grub to (hd0,0) instead of (hd0). > > To the best of my knowledge, the windows bootloader is on hd0,0 (the > windows mbr simply boots the first primary partition with the boot flag > set, usually hd0,0)
Couldn't he change the active partition with fdisk ? > Whether he was to reinstall grup properly or not, this leaves an > unbootable windows partition. Usually windows isnt kept around purely > for bragging rights, so he probably wants to fix it ;) Hmm, i'm not an NT/XP expert, but I had a similar situation with a '98 box where lilo blasted away the windows partition, fdisk /mbr fixed it no problem. Shouldn't he be able to start with a bootdisk configure grub with (hd0) and add XP to the list of O/S's to boot ? Or do you also need the boot code sitting on /dev/hda2 to load windoze ? > > (AFAIK you can't install XP on any partition higher than 0 anyway) > > you can with any of the NT-based windows versions, iirc, and at the > very least with xp. Hrm, well I don't know why after installing linux on a friends laptop and then trying to install XP to /dev/hda3 an error popped up saying something to the effect of "Windows must be installed on first partition of disk" fortunatly it was just a debian/knopix install and he just wanted linux for curiousity's sake ;-) me being enthuiastic and thinking microsoft wouldn't complain about not having their O/S first on the disk, just slapped linux /dev/hda1 swap /dev/hda2 xp /dev/hda3 grr. after xp /dev/hda1 linux /dev/hda2 swap /dev/hda3 all worked fine.. Or did I miss something to do in XP ? -- ooM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
