I'm running a Windows XP / FC3 dual-boot system on a Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop and it was running fine. Here's the partitions from fdisk: device start end Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 4462 35840983 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 4463 8287 30724312 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda3 8288 8300 104422 93 Amoeba /dev/sda4 8301 12161 31013482 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda5 4463 8287 30724281 b W95 FAT32 Inside the LVM, there is a 2 GB Swap and the rest is /. I noticed that the Linux parition showed up in Windows as F: and was concerned that Windows would somehow corrupt the partition if it was mounted, so I looked for ways to hide that partition from Windows. I ended up changing my grub.conf file to include this line in the Windows section: hide (hd0,2) In hindsight, perhaps it should have been (hd0,3). Anyways, upon reboot into Windows, I could tell that Windows did something before I logging me in. It went to that light blue screen that it uses for scandisk for about 2 seconds, then it logged me in. The F: drive was still visible, and when I rebooted, I got the following error: GRUB Loading stage1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... Error 17 Well I've seen this before, so I booted to my FC3 disk and typed "linux rescue" then "chroot /mnt/sysimage". I checked my grub.conf, which reads: title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC3) Then I ran "grub-install /dev/sda" and got this: The file /boot/grub/stage1 was not read correctly. I didn't know what that was all about, but after looking around, I found people suggesting the following: #>grub grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 To which I received: Error 15: File not found I am, however, about to browse to /boot/grub/ and I can see the stage1 file. But for some reason grub can't find it. Someone suggested using grub.img, but I don't have a floppy drive. I do, however, have network/internet access still enable thru FC3 rescue mode. Questions: Firstly, is the hide command the best way to keep Windows away from the Linux partition? What is the best way? Secondly, how do I reinstall grub successfully? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
