Dual Boot and FC 5

Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net
Mon Apr 10 06:36:05 UTC 2006


Russell Golden wrote:
> Yeah I have to do that every so often with my Shrike/WinXP laptop. It 
> wasn't that XP wouldn't boot, though, sometimes when i start it i get 
> this weird series of console beeps that really shouldn't be there. I 
> just boot linux, do a #grub-install /dev/hda and it's back to normal. 
> sometimes the MBR just randomly screws up *shrug* never trust a computer

Pardon me, but the MBR *never* just randomly screws up.
Either
	(1) something is writing over your MBR, or
	(2) you have a hardware problem

Mike
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