FC Test 3: Mangled MBR

Fa Yoeu fayoeu at gmail.com
Sun Oct 17 05:17:20 UTC 2004


The only problem I had with grub was that I couldn't boot the XP
partition after installing FC3t2.  I followed the instructions found
on the web for fixing this issue since it was known, but this issue is
different than yours because grub booted up properly.


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:26:45 -0400, Amitabha Roy <royab at bc.edu> wrote:
> nodata wrote:
> 
> >Hi.
> >I downloaded and installed FC3t3 today.
> >FC3t3 was installed on a second hard disk, and I have XP installed on the
> >first.
> >
> >After the install I rebooted when asked and received a "grub geom error".
> >I reinstalled again, this time seeing the message "grub" then nothing.
> >
> >To make Windows work again, I booted from the XP recovery CD and ran
> >"fixmbr".
> >A third install of FC3t3 broke the MBR again.
> >
> >Two questions:
> > 1. Were the FC2/XP problems resolved in FC3t3?
> > 2. Any ideas? :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> You need to install the bootloader on the first hard disk (I assume its
> /dev/hda) - there is an option
> to do so during install.
> 
> Is your disk capacity more than 140 Gigs ?  If so, have you enabled
> BIOS support of large disk drives ?
> 
> 
> 
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