On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 22:34 -0700, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: > The solution was as I had originally guessed: I needed to make a new > copy of the boot sector, and place it [in a file] on my Windows XP > boot partition for NTLDR via boot.ini to load and use. Once I did > that, Fedora booted just fine. This seems odd, as I've seen no evidence to suggest that the boot sector gets altered by updating a kernel, when you're using grub as your bootloader. After all, you can use the same boot record to boot either kernel, and since the changes are in the grub.conf file, there's no need to make changes elsewhere, as well. Lilo's another matter, though. I can, quite easily, believe that Windows may have simply stuffed the file up that you'd previously used through NTLDR. I think the obvious test would be to take that boot record file from before the kernel update, and compare it to the one after the update. Use the "diff" command. If they are the same, as I expect, that means you're chasing a red herring. If they're not the same, you'd have to work out if that's just co-incidental, or if there really are kernel-dependent changes in the boot record. -- (This box runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
