On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 09:51, shmuel siegel wrote:
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 19:40, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> I tried the "repair existing installation" option from WinXP
> install CD, but that had no effect.
I can't talk for WinXP but in Win2k and Win2003 you can also go into a
console mode for repair. You can repair the loader and if you have to
you can repair the MBR. If you repair the MBR, you will lose the ability
to use grub to boot linux. I have had luck before just restoring the
boot loader.
I had this happen when installing Core 2 Test 1
FIXBOOT did nothing to help.
FIXMBR made my bios reject the drive as bootable.
The situation inspired me to write this:
http://mpeters.us/linux/dualboot_grub.php
It's not a fix for the problem - but it's how to avoid it in the future.
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