Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 08:19 -0700, oldman wrote:
Doesn't work in my situation The console says it found a bad boot
says it replaced it, but
can't boot to it. Heres my disk:
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 14592 117105817+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 14 1288 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 1289 3200 15358108+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3201 3264 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda8 3265 4539 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 4540 4794 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 4795 6619 14659281 83 Linux
my grub.conf sets root to (hd0,4) but gives me an error, something like
bad executable.
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you might want to post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf
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Interestingly, fixboot did not affect the MBR, as grub boots normally.
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FIXBOOT isn't supposed to do a thing to the MBR.
FIXMBR would do that but that would be disastrous to grub and booting
Linux
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The only thing I can think of is that Win2k
doesn't like being on an extended partition, but what is fixboot
writing, and where is it writing to? Beats the hell out of me!
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Win2K should be fine with where it is, it just needs to know where it
is.
Might be interesting to know what is in C:\boot.ini which you can look
at if you boot Win2K/WinXP System Restore CD and enter Recovery mode
(Console) - This is the thing that FIXBOOT is supposed to operate upon.
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Well, I finally got around to figuring it out. FIXBOOT does not
mess with boot.ini it operates on the 1st sector of the (Windows)
partition which is the 2nd stage of the boot process (pretty much like
GRUB). anyway, sure would have been nice if M$ wold have included an
editor in the recovery console. Had to make a new boot.ini on a floppy
run a unix2dos on it and copy it over to C:\. It works again (though
still I may not use it much, as I have a Rawhide, FC4 and considering
putting in UBUNTU or OpenSuse, just 'cause I need to mess with something.
Any way, sorry for the bum steer to Noah. I'll probably get around to
wiping Windows one of these days (haven't booted it in about a year -
Maybe I'll just get another linux distro).
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that wasn't a bum steer, that was an opportunity to wreak havoc. Telling
people to re-install Windows when it isn't necessary is better left to
the support staff at Dell/Sony/HP-Compaq/Gateway/etc.
Craig
Couldn't disagree more, actually. I have reinstalled Windows
several times. Sometimes with no erase sometimes with. Knowing how all
this stuff works is always a good idea. And I learn best and quickest
from recoverng from a screwup :-)
Scott
