Grub writes the location of the grub.conf file to the Master Book Record (eg A special 512K part of a hard drive) of the hard drive. When the hard drive is booted the grub.conf file is retrieved and presented as a menu as to which OS or Linux kernel should be booted. You can clear the master boot record, (eg MBR), from you dos disk with the following command"
fdisk MBR Evidentially the XP emergency repair disk did not rewrite the MBR when you restored XP. Regards, LelandJ mrgmhale wrote: > Drag re: broken finger. Heal quick, and heal properly. We don't need you > hanging around with a bent finger! > > Gil > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Whil Hentzen (Pro*) >> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 3:56 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: [NF] Emergency disks and reinstalls... >> >> >> Ted Roche wrote: >> >>> On 2/5/07, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Evidently something didn't 'take', but instead of spending the rest of >>>> the day goofing around with it, I thought I'd ask first... >>>> >>>> >>> Ask what? >>> >> WHY IS IT SO DAMN COLD AROUND HERE? I want to go out for a bike ride but >> my faux-reynaud's makes it impossible to do so until the merc hits 60. >> >> >>>> (Typing with nine fingers... the doc put me in a splint to see if my >>>> broken finger will repair itself. Hmmmph.) >>>> >>> At your age? Amazing it didn't break off and fall to dust like >>> >> in The Mummy. >> >> I bow to superior experience and vintage. Far superior. >> >> >>>> Then I set this up with a copy of XP that I want to put on another >>>> machine. So I dug out the rescue disks for this Thinkpad, run the >>>> installer for the rescue disks, and I expect it to do what it says it's >>>> going to do - (1) format the hard disk, (2) install the rescue routines >>>> in a hidden partition, and (3) install XP from the rescue partition. >>>> >>> So what you want to do is blow away everything you've set up? Why? >>> >> Just to see if I can. This is the fourth box on my desk right now. I can >> afford to experiment and (gasp) mebbe learn something. >> >> Or maybe not. That's entirely possibl^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprobable. >> >> >>> I'd boot up with a knoppix disk, run QTParted and remove all the >>> partitions. Then try the rescue disks again. >>> >> Yeah, that looks like the best bet. I was just kinda hoping for the >> magic "Hold the Shift key down while hopping on one foot and a 'move the >> rescue partition' menu will appear" hint. Evidently these twisty >> passages ARE all alike. >> >> >>>> Note that this Thinkpad came with XP, but I blew it away and formatted >>>> the entire disk. >>>> >>> Well, there's your first mistake. My advice on your next TP: shrink >>> the partition to a more reasonable size, make a copy of it with >>> partimage (as a backup) and then install FC6. No need to blow away the >>> XP partition, and that way you retain any special drivers that came >>> with the machine. >>> >> Yeah, but back then I was young and foolish. Actually, it was one of >> those 'burn the bridges' things... Think back to what 'burn your >> bridges' originally meant. >> >> >>>> Everything 'appears' to work, but upon startup, nothing has changed. My >>>> grub menu with FC and the old install of XP are still there, and >>>> pressing F11 to use the recovery files doesn't work. The machine beeps >>>> until I let go, then my grub menu displays. >>>> >>> Weird. I'd guess the recovery software is looking for a default >>> partition table and when it doesn't find one it bails, but doesn't >>> bother to tell you. >>> >> Yeah, I concur. Oh well, more fodder for articles I'll never write. >> >> Where IS that Knoppix disk.... >> >> Oh, right here on my forehead, where I left it. >> >> Whil >> >> >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
