On Thursday 01 February 2007 20:57, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:01:39 -0500, Mike McMullin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took > time to say the following: > > > (^_^)> I know it's hard to keep track of everything in this convoluted > thread, (^_^)> Mike :-) but at some point I distinctly recall Charles > mentioning he was (^_^)> doing a restore or recovery of the XP > installation. I'm pretty sure a 'back (^_^)> to factory' recovery would > overwrite grub. > (^_^) > (^_^) Yes it would, someone suggested a nice simple how-to to fix the mbr > (^_^)from the rescue console. That would be nice. However I think your > (^_^)mining along the vein of writing to the MBR is probably fruitful. So > if (^_^)I could ask a question of the OP, did you have grub write to the > MBR (^_^)since you restored your XP? The system booting directly into XP > would (^_^)seem to indicate that you didn't. > (^_^) > (^_^) Carl - What do you think of the idea of having the XP bootloader > (^_^)handle booting instead of Grub? There are reasonably simple > (^_^)instructions for editing the required files in XP as well as how to > get (^_^)file(s) he will need to copy over to his XP root partition. > (^_^) > (^_^) Mike
Tried that as experiment, and it didn't worked as described. > I am pretty slow, but sometimes I pick things up if I see them used more > than once! (referring to "OP" which i am assuming means original poster?) > Anyway, yes, I had it checked to write to the MBR and nothing happened. > To your original remarks earlier, it is true that XP won't automatically > repair or revert the MBR to a before linux state. You have to do that > manually or via a install. > > Carl is correct, it was a strict recovery because the MBR was totally > hosed. Some ideas how grub works, and what might be problem, may be picked up in recent article http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/grub I hope that original author will add more. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
