bad form to reply to myself, but I want to clarify. On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 22:28 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:13 -0400, Duncan Lithgow wrote: > > Sounds strange to you too? It does to me, here\s what\s happening... > > > > I recently installed win2000 at the front of my drive, knowing it > > would mess my boot loader (grub) but expecting I could fix it, I have > > before. > > > > So I threw in FC3 disk one, got to the command line chrooted to > > /mnt/sysimage and ran grub/install hd0. Maybe that wasn\t a good idea > > after all... > > > hd0 is not a valid name in fedora. Did you mistype and mean hda, or > did you maybe do /dev/hda0 (again invalid)? > hd0 is not a valid device name, although it is used by grub in the device map. > > On rebooting it seemed to work when I booted into windows so I thought > > I\d try fc3 and rebooted. Grub Error 22, something about can\t find > > stage1-5. So, I put FC3 Disk1 in again and ran that - this time it > > refuses to mount the old system saying "no linux partitions found" - > > my blood pressure rises... > > > > I thought "that can\t be and threw in PartitionMagic - "partition > > Table error", So I tried Knoppix, it found two drives, one the win2000 > > partition and the other and unmountable, unrecognised section. It > > should have found about 7. > > > > So, I guessed that I\d somehow lost my partitions and went looking for > > a solution. Found TestDisk, got win2000 installed again - that being > > the only partition I could risk playing with. Ran TestDisk, great wee > > program, worked fine, found the 'deleted' partitions and restored them > > - windows could see the big fat32 partition with all my non-system > > files and things looked good. But then as I went through the process > > of getting grub working, same as above - it did the same thing again. > > > The instructions for reinstalling grub on a dual boot system with a > simgle IDE drive are: > > 1. boot to rescue mode (you have done that several times) > 2. chroot /mnt/sysimage (you did that as well) > 3. grub-install /dev/hda (your text above says you may have flubbed this > step) > > If you use any other partition name it WILL NOT get written to the MBR, > and MAY corrupt your drive (as you have done). > Unless grub-install is able to use the device map and get the physical device it will not get properly written to the MBR. I do not know if it can do that or not since I have never tried. I have always used the actual device name ( /dev/hda ) with no problems. > > So now I\m using gmails web interface and Knoppix and hoping someonw > > knows what's going on - I'm going to bed. > > > > Duncan > > >
