On Saturday 09 December 2006 22:02, Carl Hartung wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 21:36, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > I'm having a problem with a setup using 2 hard drives. > > hda is XP, hdb is Suse 10.0. If both drives are > > connected, something is telling the bios that there are NO > > hard drives connected. If I disconnect hdb, I get > > a message that the primary hard drive has been > > detected. Then when the system tries to boot I > > get a grub failure error. I really don't need Linux on that > > machine. How can I get the machine to boot into XP > > without the grub boot error, with the second drive disconnected? > > I am also having trouble with the CD player on that machine, > > so it's problematical if I can boot off a CD. (I don't have > > any kind of backup disk for XP, as far as I remember.) > > I could have done this with an old Windows, with fdisk mbr, > > off of a floppy, but I don't know what XP wants. > > > > --doug > > Doug, > > This is a SUSE-centric list. It isn't very good form to ask questions here > about solving XP problems. This is definitely an XP problem if you're not > intending to recover/preserve your SUSE installation. That being said:
Well, I don't think that the problem is really XP--the problem is grub. If I had never loaded SuSE and grub, the machine would boot. But if it's really unhappy for you guys, I apologize. I don't know where else to ask. > > Go to <http://www.theeldergeek.com/> and research how to restore/reinstall > the system's XP boot menu. > > If you Google, you will quickly find many XP boot diskette images available > that you can transfer to floppy and use to boot into XP. If you've > installed XP's command line 'recovery console' in parallel with the system, > you won't need the original CD to run the console and > recover/rebuild/restore the XP boot manager. > > Good luck! > > Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
