F7-x86-64 Stopped Booting - GRUB Issue

[Karl Larsen]

Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> Thank you for giving me the instructions on installing GRUB, but I'm 
>>> very nervous about disturbing Windows again, and thus having to 
>>> install two OSes again.
>>>
>>> Raymond
>>>
>>    Why did grub not boot both windows and Linux after you loaded 
>> Linux? In the load sequence it gets to the grub section and ask's if 
>> you want it. Then if yes you set up Linux and windows to be booted. 
>> Why did this not work?
>>
> As I stated, Windows XP did not like having the MBR tampered with. I'm 
> not a MCSE, so I didn't do much in the way of troubleshooting Windows, 
> nor did I feel like going through the hassles on my personal computer. 
> Furthermore, it was 7 months ago that I did the installations, and the 
> details are no longer as clear as they once were.
>>    You can reload the boot for windows by just running the install CD 
>> for winXP. You should not ever lose windows.
>>
> See above. The few times I did try to use the WinXP recovery, I chose 
> to use the automated recovery which failed to do anything useful.
>>    Tell us more about your setup. How many hard drives? How did you 
>> make partitions? Which partitions do you have now? What are the names 
>> of the partitions, like /dev/sda3 and such?
>>
> At the time of installation, there was just a single SATA hard disk 
> which I partitioned during WinXP's installation. As I'm about 20 miles 
> from the machine at the moment (accessing it via RDP over ssh), I 
> can't exactly pop a CD into it and boot linux to find out all the 
> details at this time; I'll do that this evening. But, if memory 
> serves, the Linux partition is at /dev/sda2.
>
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Right now if in fact Linux is at /dev/sda2 we can get your old system 
working. Get on your Linux and go to /boot/grub/ and with an editor 
display grub.conf and you should see that #boot= /dev/sda2 and down at 
the kernel listing it will say root=(hd0,1) and if that is the case, the 
problem is in your windows boot.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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