FC1 on the enterprise?

[John Nelson]

Yes, GRUB would be gone on the Windows disk, but how do I get the 
WIndows XP loader back on that MBR? Probably can't  use Win98's loader 
and as we've already seen, fixmbr and fixboot don't seem to work.

-- John


Juan C. Valido wrote:

>About the grub thing, it's probably in the MBR, if you have a win98 or
>winme boot floppy boot from it and type fdisk /mbr and it's gone...
>On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 11:22, John T Nelson wrote:
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>>Hello all,
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>>On the subject of FC1 problems, I recently tried to upgrade my RH 8 system 
>>to FC1. While starting the upgrade, the installer exited complaining about 
>>"corrupt or misaligned disk partitions". RH9 has the same problem with 
>>this disk yet the old RH8 system boots and operates fine.
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>>Well right after this attempted upgrade, FC1 seems to have snuck GRUB into
>>either the MBR or chain loader because now when I try to boot Windows XP
>>(which is on a separate disk), I get a GRUB L prompt and hang. So FC1
>>seems to have shoved GRUB onto my system before verifying that the install
>>was correct. I tried to correct this problem by using Windows XP Recovery
>>Console but niether fixmbr or fixboot correct the problem.
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>>And I really really hate GRUB. I've never been able to get that thing to 
>>work properly and I'm miffed that FC1 pushes it on me without my consent.
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>>So I have two issues:
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>>	1) Misaligned disk partition
>>	2) GRUB installed (on disk 2?)
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>>Any suggestions on how to correct these problems?
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>>-- John
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