Fedora Users — Re: FC1 on the enterprise?

Yes, GRUB would be gone on the Windows disk, but how do I get the WIndows XP loader back on that MBR? Probably can't use Win98's loader and as we've already seen, fixmbr and fixboot don't seem to work.

-- John


Juan C. Valido wrote:

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