Dan McGhee wrote:
> Posting to this list because of possible GRUB installation probs.
>
> Dual boot box with XP and (B)LFS on separate hard drives--XP on hda1 and
> LFS on hdb1. LFS 3 (?) years old--6.1 or 6.2. Wanted to re-arrange
> partitions and clean-up pending a new LFS build. Backed up everything to
> external hard drive. I used Nero for Windows and `tar -cf - . | tar
> -xvf - -C <target>` for linux. I might add that I hadn't done this
> before becuase Partition Magic 8.0 in windows was reporting "bad
> partition" table and wouldn't make any changes.
>
> I used Gparted live CD to make the partition changes that I wanted, used
> a Nero boot CD to recover Windows and LFSLIVECD-6.3 to recopy LFS. So
> far so good.
>
> When I rebooted I got GRUB error 22. OK, so I used XP install disk and
> ran fixmbr. Now I could get to windows but not LFS. Grub Error 15 "no
> such file or directory." Googling led me to the concept that grub's
> stage{1,2} and e2fs-stage1_5 are images. So using the LFS live-cd and
> version 6.2 of the book, I chrooted into LFS uninstalled, rebuilt and
> re-installed GRUB-0.97. Don't know what my mistakes were, but I went
> through this iteration a couple (?) of times before <grub> setup (hd0)
> reported that it had recognized and successfully installed itself to the
> MBR. Now I couldn't even boot to Windows. So I started again. One
> thing that I did notice was the grub reported hd0 as ext3 and hd1 as
> fat32. That's just the opposite of the situation.
>
> By this time I was pressing to fix and was tired. Shoulda walked away.
> I tried to "repair" my windows installation, but it looked like a
> complete new install and I didn't complete it. Wiped the hard drive and
> tried again. In the interim I had discovered the grub boot cd. Glad I
> did because after the repair attempt, I ended up restoring with Nero
> again, PC told me "trouble loading OS" at boot. Now I can't boot
> without that CD and only to windows. Each time I try to boot LFS, I get
> Error 15.
>
> When I try to set up grub using LiveCD and chroot, the results of `setup
> (hd0) are
>
> checking stage1 exists...no
> checking boot/grub/stage1 exists...no
> no such file or directory
>
> In the grub shell `find boot/grub/stage1` gives
>
> file or directory does not exist.
>
> I'm stumped. Can't find anything helpful by googling any more. I can
> only think that I have fallen pray to windows and DOS snobbishness and
> am paying for using a non-windows based partition manager to do my work.
>
> The other possibility is that somehow I have hosed my bios. It does
> detect each hard drive and in the right order. I've run Western
> Digital's checks and the hard drives appear to be OK.
>
> I'm hoping that someone here can at least point me in the right
> direction on this. Hard drive and bios operations are absolutely my
> weakest area in computing.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dan
>
I had something similar recently with a dual boot system. I think you
will find that XP when installed on teh first HDD places the key bootup
files NTLDR et al on the second physical disk.
I would try physically disconnecting the second disk, then repairing (or
even reinstalling) XP.
There's no guarantee that this will work of course, but I think it's
worth a try.
Regards,
Anthony.
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