On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:19 -0800, Evan White wrote: > 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? My guess is that the partition /dev/sda3 is actually your Linux /boot partition, since it's about the right size and you have no other grub- readable Linux partitions. I would use fdisk and change the partition type to "Linux" instead of "Amoeba". Grub might then be happier to look there for /grub/stage1 (the leading /boot is not required since you have a separate /boot partition). As for hiding the Linux partition(s) from Windows, can't you use "Disk Management" and tell Windows not to assign a drive letter to that partition? Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
