On Apr 7, 2005 2:17 AM, Barry Yu <barryyupuilee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My system is a dual boot FC3 and XP, the default bootloader was GRUB and > installed in /dev/hda, displaying a menu for option of FC3 and > Microsoft. The XP was corrupted and I rebuilt the boot.ini file, since > then the M$ bootloader became default and I left with option to use DOS > and XP on that menu - there was no FC 3 bootup built in tha M$ menu, I > tried to re-instate the GRUB into MBR like this; > > Booted up the rescue CD and enter : linux rescue > chroot /mnt/sysimage > grub-install /dev/hda > (I tried above on other machines before in several times and worked fine > but not this time - see message displayed below) > > A message displayed ; /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drives. > The result was I can't bootup the GRUB. > So I booted up the rescue CD again and get into recue mode; > chroot /mnt/sysimage > grub-install --recheck /dev/hda > (Displayed below) > (fd0) /dev/fd0 > (hd0) /dev/hda > (hd1) /dev/hdb > > And the I rebooted sytem, this time GRUB is reinstated and worked O.K. > > My question; Why GRUB was corrupted (?), why grub-install /dev/hda won't > fix the problem but grub-install --recheck /dev/hda would? When you rebuilt boot.ini, windows overwrote the MBR with it's own boot loader. You see, windows is not that considerate when it comes to dual boot of a windows OS and a non windows OS. It assumes (wrongly) that it and maybe it's brothers are the only OSes that are/can be installed on the system. I am not sure about the second question. VJP -- Novitiate of the Knife, under the Master of the Sabre. Official Protector of The Llama, Spiritual Leader of The Republic of Loungevania
