On Sunday 16 April 2006 15:02, Gene Heskett wrote: >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? > Traceing it with google, I found a thread that told me howto put grub into the mbr. So now its booted and updateing via yum. I haven't tried to reboot to XP yet. On the boot, I saw it make 2 or 3 passes at starting X, and when it finally did, the screen resolution wasn't very good, so I've added a "1200x768" in front of that choice in the xorg.conf, and reset inittab to 3 so I can play with it. Ahh, the update is done, now to see if it all works. That faint knocking sound, thats me, beating on my wooden head. >>>-- >>> 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. -- 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.
