I suppose this should go to the bugzilla thing, but I don't know how to get there, and those who do that probably read here.
On another computer, which is down partly for this reason, I had XP on the first hard drive, and SuSE 10.0 on the second hard drive, using Grub for the boot controller, and Reiser FS. It turned out that the second HD failed. Then it was impossible to boot the system, since it seems that Grub portions out its booter between the first and second drives. The first drive attempts to boot the system, but it comes up with Grub, and then Grub error, and then you are in the pot. Nothing will help, since part of Grub must be on the second drive, which has failed. (I have had some semi-professionals check out drive 2 and verify that it failed. The Best-Buy Geek Squad. They don't seem to know very much about Linux.) It's absolutely ridiculous that a boot manager should share its secrets over two drives. This is an excellent example of why not. I need some kind of boot CD or DVD (or floppy) that can be run from a CD drive that will restore the boot of the XP system. Or some kind of NTFS boot disk. I think I need to have a program that will access the disk and send it "FIX MBR" from some conversation some time ago, here. The Geek Squad doesn't seem to know how to do any of this. And I don't either. I would be happy to pay for the floppy or CD that would make the XP machine work again. It will never have Linux on it anymore, but I have this machine, with its own problems running Linux, and until I couldn't print, fairly happily. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
