About the grub thing, it's probably in the MBR, if you have a win98 or winme boot floppy boot from it and type fdisk /mbr and it's gone... On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 11:22, John T Nelson wrote: > Hello all, > > On the subject of FC1 problems, I recently tried to upgrade my RH 8 system > to FC1. While starting the upgrade, the installer exited complaining about > "corrupt or misaligned disk partitions". RH9 has the same problem with > this disk yet the old RH8 system boots and operates fine. > > Well right after this attempted upgrade, FC1 seems to have snuck GRUB into > either the MBR or chain loader because now when I try to boot Windows XP > (which is on a separate disk), I get a GRUB L prompt and hang. So FC1 > seems to have shoved GRUB onto my system before verifying that the install > was correct. I tried to correct this problem by using Windows XP Recovery > Console but niether fixmbr or fixboot correct the problem. > > And I really really hate GRUB. I've never been able to get that thing to > work properly and I'm miffed that FC1 pushes it on me without my consent. > > So I have two issues: > > 1) Misaligned disk partition > 2) GRUB installed (on disk 2?) > > Any suggestions on how to correct these problems? > > -- John > >
