Grub and something called ZISD

[Ed Greshko]

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On 10/24/14 01:47, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently gotten a new workstation at university. It came with
> Windows 7 and of course, I added Fedora 21 to the mix. However, each
> time I log into Windows and reboot, it seems to get stuck in a kind of
> boot loop at BIOS - probably can't find grub. Would anyone know what
> causes this? Seems to be some Windows boot repair?
>
> It's quite simple to fix - boot into rescue mode from a netinstall or
> dvd media and reinstall grub. However, when I do this, grub gives me a
> message on the lines of:
>
>> Installing for i386-pc platform.
>> grub2-install: warning: Sector 5 is already in use by the program ‘ZISD’; avoiding it.  This software may cause boot or other problems in future.  Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track.
>>
>
> I've looked around and ZISD seems to be some Novell program - I'm really
> not sure what it is. Can I remove it? Is there a simple way to? Will my
> system always loose grub after booting to Windows??

Google ZISD.  Look at screen.   See "GRUB and ZISD - Cool Solutions | Novell" as second entry.

Click on link.

https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/grub-and-zisd/

Enjoy....

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