--- Mikael Konttinen <micken@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Ori, > > No, I believe that is because you have overwritten > the MBR (Master Boot > Record) with GRUB, something that Windows XP cannot > handle as it needs its > own (NT) bootloader. > > To recover your Windows into booting condition, you > have to boot from the > Windows CD into Recovery console and type FIXMBR. > After that you should be > able to boot Windows but not Linux. Then you have to > re-install GRUB on your > /boot partition bootblock, NOT on the MBR! > > To boot Linux from the NT bootloader, you have to > make a file of the linux > /boot partition bootblock using dd and reference to > it in the hidden system > file c:\boot.ini. > > If you want to use GRUB as first bootloader, you > make the /boot partition > active partition using fdisk. To be able to boot > Windows XP from GRUB, add > the following lines to grub.conf: > > title WindowsXP > rootnoverify (hd0,x) <-- where x is your WinXP > partition number, most > likely (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > For further (and more verbose) information, check > out: > http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html > > A dd ported to windows can be found at: > http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm > > (Note that dd for win32 references to harddisk > volumes not as /dev/hdXY, but > as \\?\Device\HarddiskX\PartitionY where both X and > Y are numeral counting > from zero) > > > Hope this helps > > Mkn. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ori Rosen" <ori_r2003@xxxxxxxxx> > To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 3:55 PM > Subject: Fedora Core 2 and Windows xp > > > > After installing FC2, when I try to boot windows > xp > > from the grub menu, I get the message: file is > missing > > or corrupt: Windows root\system32\hal.dll. > > Is this a symptom of the problem described in > > http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/? > > > > Thanks > > Ori > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Mikael, Is there a way I can verify that the MBR has been really overwritten? Thanks Ori __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Vote for the stars of Yahoo!'s next ad campaign! http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo/votelifeengine/
