On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:52, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:47, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >>On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Humm, I now have installed the 386 version of FC5, but I told it to >>> put grub in the 1st sector of /dev/hda2, the partition named /boot. >>> >>> But there's no choice of booting anything but XP. I guess this >>> means I have to install it in the mbr of /dev/hda? >>> >>> In which case how do I install it, and whats the magic spell to put >>> into grub.conf so I have a choice of what to boot? >>> >>> Running the rescue cd, and cd'd to /mnt/sysimage, with a shell, a >>> "usr/local/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda" gets me a message that it >>> can't find grub in sbin. Of course its not there, if booted >>> normally it would be in /usr/sbin. >>> >>> Obviously there's something I'm doing wrong in trying to protect >>> the XP install, but how can I fix it and boot the just installed >>> i386 version of FC5? I'd druther not have to go all the way thru >>> another install just to move the grub stuff into the MBR. >> >>You are fine with GRUB in /dev/hda2. Now boot with a rescue disk and >> run 'fdisk /dev/hda' Then enter 'a' to toggle the boot flag and >> then '2' to make /dev/hda2 bootable, then 'w' to write the partition >> table, then reboot. >> >>Do *NOT* use the Windows disk manager to toggle the bootable flag! >> Every time I tried that with Win2K, it would blow away my entire >> partition table. >> >>I always thought it would be nice if when you selected /boot's >> partition for GRUB, the installer would make it bootable, but when I >> bugzilla'd the request it was shot down. > >I just did that, checked it with a p, then w rote it. Got this > message: Warning: re-reading the partition table failed with error > 16: Device or resource busy. Then I ctl-d'd the shell and let it > reboot. It booted to windows, I rebooted, hit esc, that screen > looked like the normal bios screen for selection, with neither hda1 > nor hda2, just hda being the choices. I rebooted to the rescue cd, > and re-ran fdisk & found that flag was off again. I've set it again, > but when I w the changes, the above error is output. > >Do I need to skip the search? Ahh, that time no error when I wrote > it, but the * survived adjacent to /dev/hda2. But no boot choice > either on the reboot. > >So I power cycled it, and booted back to the rescue cd. And no boot >flag for /dev/hda2 when I rerun fdisk /dev/hda after the power cycle. > >Next suggestion reinstall/what? If I reinstall, and let it put grub > in the mbr this time, whats the magic spell for grub.conf to make XP > Home edition usable again? > >Thats based on if I'm to hate winderz as bad as I have over the years, >never having owned a winderz machine before, I'd at least like to get >to know my enemy. And I just found GAG on the gparted disk, maybe this will work, or should I figure on reinstalling and letting it put grub in the mbr this time? > >>-- >> Matthew Saltzman >> >>Clemson University Math Sciences >>mjs AT clemson DOT edu >>http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
