On 6/14/05, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 12:37 PM -0500 6/14/05, Jessica L. Veltman wrote: > >>Try booting with a Windows XP CD and running 'fixmbr' in the recovery > >>console. That removes any instances of GRUB from the MBR. I had this > >>same problem, and after I did that and re-installed Fedora, GRUB > >>re-installed itself to the MBR, and it worked fine. > >> > >>Let me know if you do that and it doesn't work, or if it does for that > >matter! > ... > >I tried doing all of that, but the results were the same. After the > >installation restarted, my computer booted straight into Windows again. > > I think your bootsector must be OK or you wouldn't boot into WinXP. If the > grub bootsector is being written to /boot instead the disk bootsector, this > is the expected behavior. You could copy the bootsector manually with dd; > something like this will copy the bootsector from /boot to the real > bootsector: > > dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > > Look in /etc/mtab to find out what hda should be, and what number /boot is > on. On mine it's actually hde and hde3, so YMMV. dd is very low level and > is often used to erase entire disks. The blocksize and count are > /important/. You Have Been Warned. > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > If the grub bootsector is being written to /boot, then if I made only that disk bootable, it should boot, right? I did try this and it did not work. I checked grub and it says it is installed at /dev/hda, whereas /boot is located at /dev/hdb1. So if i did copy the bootsector but grub isn't installed on /dev/hdb1, then I'd end up with a completely nonbootable system, correct?
