aprax@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I attempted to install Linux as dual-boot with my Windows 2000 > Professional operating system. I have installed the i386 version of Linux > onto one of two of my hard drives. One hard drive is a Maxtor 80 GB (that > I have Windows 2000 installed on) and the other is a Maxtor 40 GB (the one > I that installed Linux on). My motherboard is a KR7A-RAID. The two hard > drives are mounted on the IDE3 controller as a span array configured as > "just a bunch of disks." After I completed the installation of Linux on > my computer, I removed the installation CD and my computer rebooted and > came up with the error message <tt>GRUB hard disk error</tt>. I don't see > a way of circumventing this error and simply booting to Windows 2000. > What are my options? And detailed instructions if possible please, as I'm > pretty much a newbie to the Linux operating system. I would boot from CD#1 in rescue mode. (Answer "linux rescue" to the boot prompt.) Then "chroot /mnt/sysimage" as advised, look at /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf and see if they are correct (edit them if they are not), and then say "grub-install --recheck /dev/hda". -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
