I give up on x86-64, its too busted.

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Apr 16 19:02:59 UTC 2006


On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:52, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:47, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Humm, I now have installed the 386 version of FC5, but I told it to
>>> put grub in the 1st sector of /dev/hda2, the partition named /boot.
>>>
>>> But there's no choice of booting anything but XP.  I guess this
>>> means I have to install it in the mbr of /dev/hda?
>>>
>>> In which case how do I install it, and whats the magic spell to put
>>> into grub.conf so I have a choice of what to boot?
>>>
>>> Running the rescue cd, and cd'd to /mnt/sysimage, with a shell, a
>>> "usr/local/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda"  gets me a message that it
>>> can't find grub in sbin.  Of course its not there, if booted
>>> normally it would be in /usr/sbin.
>>>
>>> Obviously there's something I'm doing wrong in trying to protect
>>> the XP install, but how can I fix it and boot the just installed
>>> i386 version of FC5?  I'd druther not have to go all the way thru
>>> another install just to move the grub stuff into the MBR.
>>
>>You are fine with GRUB in /dev/hda2.  Now boot with a rescue disk and
>> run 'fdisk /dev/hda'  Then enter 'a' to toggle the boot flag and
>> then '2' to make /dev/hda2 bootable, then 'w' to write the partition
>> table, then reboot.
>>
>>Do *NOT* use the Windows disk manager to toggle the bootable flag!
>> Every time I tried that with Win2K, it would blow away my entire
>> partition table.
>>
>>I always thought it would be nice if when you selected /boot's
>> partition for GRUB, the installer would make it bootable, but when I
>> bugzilla'd the request it was shot down.
>
>I just did that, checked it with a p, then w rote it.  Got this
> message: Warning: re-reading the partition table failed with error
> 16: Device or resource busy.  Then I ctl-d'd the shell and let it
> reboot.  It booted to windows, I rebooted, hit esc, that screen
> looked like the normal bios screen for selection, with neither hda1
> nor hda2, just hda being the choices.  I rebooted to the rescue cd,
> and re-ran fdisk & found that flag was off again.  I've set it again,
> but when I w the changes, the above error is output.
>
>Do I need to skip the search?  Ahh, that time no error when I wrote
> it, but the * survived adjacent to /dev/hda2.  But no boot choice
> either on the reboot.
>
>So I power cycled it, and booted back to the rescue cd.  And no boot
>flag for /dev/hda2 when I rerun fdisk /dev/hda after the power cycle.
>
>Next suggestion reinstall/what?  If I reinstall, and let it put grub
> in the mbr this time, whats the magic spell for grub.conf to make XP
> Home edition usable again?
>
>Thats based on if I'm to hate winderz as bad as I have over the years,
>never having owned a winderz machine before, I'd at least like to get
>to know my enemy.

And I just found GAG on the gparted disk, maybe this will work, or 
should I figure on reinstalling and letting it put grub in the mbr this 
time?
>
>>--
>>   Matthew Saltzman
>>
>>Clemson University Math Sciences
>>mjs AT clemson DOT edu
>>http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs

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