On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 18:57 -0800, 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 > > 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.
As far as I know, it won't, but I'm not an MS Guru. Someone mentioned Norton Anti Virus (and IIRC McAffee) might have auto-repaired the boot sector thinking it might have been changed due to virus activity. I do remember having this "fixed" for me a few times before finding the setting to not "fix" it. Let me clarify one thing, you did the Grub install and then re-booted, and it went into XP without showing the Grub menu, correct? > Carl is correct, it was a strict recovery because the MBR was totally > hosed. Noted. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
