Hi, Boot from a CD. Do : fdisk -l Now find out, which is your /boot partition. check that this is the same in your /boot/grub.conf now run /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda(or whatever is your primary hard disk) hope this will help. On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Mikael Konttinen wrote: > > All, > > I've finally got a working Windows XP again and no data loss on the NTFS > data partitions, though it was done with a fresh re-install of Windows XP. > During the installation of XP apparently the MBR was rewritten again, this > time with the result that GRUB no longer works. Somebody mentioned that > possibility earlier, though I didn't listen as I thought that since GRUB is > written on the /boot partition and not on the MBR, it shouldn't be affected. > Also, from what I've read (or the way I got it), Linux doesn't give a fork > about the given CHS/LBA disk geometry and therefor shouldn't be as > vulnerable to inconsistency as WinXP apparently is. > > Anyway. > > What happens when I try to boot GRUB is that GRUB loads but halts with its > command prompt. No menu anymore, though all kernel and conf files seem to be > in place when I mount the /boot partition from a linux CD boot. I recalled > the rows from the grub.conf and manually typed root(hd0,0) chainloader +1 > and boot to get back into Windows XP again so it seems like GRUB is working > although it doesn't find the confs for some reason. > > I've googled for this strange problem, but all results I find on the topic > is about getting XP booting. Didn't find anything appropriate in the > Bugzilla or FAQ and the man page didn't give me any clues neither. > > > Yours > Mkn. > > > PS. I got infected with the non booting WinXP after installing Fedora Core 2 > and the published LBA/sfdisk fix didn't work. Got a bit nervous there as > I've got OS and NTFS data partitions on the same disk and really really > really didn't want to loose the ~80-100 gigs of raw video and audio work as > the result of a defect partition table. ... Yes, mom. Time to learn about > back up routines. ;) > > > -- Bye, Mugdha. Visit me at http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~mugdha/
