GRUB failure after WinXP re-install or complicating grub.conf
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 20 00:33:35 UTC 2004
Scott Talbot wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 00:04 +0000, Jim Cornette wrote:
>
> Jim:
>
> Nice setup! I also have multiple distros: FC2, FC3T1, Mandrake10,
> Win2k, and am glad to see how you chainload the other distros.
Thanks! I was going to try installing lilo on the mbr, then chainload
the others that use grub. I forgot so much about grub parameters, so I
gave up on that idea.
>
> In my case I have Grub in the MBR which loads the .conf from hdc6. the
> grub-install command is still pointing to the hda as that is what the
> machine will boot from, and of course from there, I can chainloader to
> anywhere I want.
The actually config file for my setup is on /dev/hdb5. I imagine the
general concept is pretty similar.
/dev/hdb5 2538 2550 104391 83 Linux -/boot
/dev/hdb6 2551 3460 7309543+ 83 Linux -/
>
> When the windows wiped your mbr that is the only one you should have to
> replace, no?
Windows never touches the mbr on this machine. (no windows partitions)
I used to have to reinstall grub to mbr through the use of either
rescue mode or by chroot to the other distributions. I noticed recently
that you can choose the edit the grub settings during the anaconda
install. Before, I was busy chrooting and rescue disc booting.
Since I have seperate /boot partitions for each distributions. Three
distinct grub loaders are there. The trick is in getting them to load
and preventing grub in mbr from changing away from the installation in
the extended partition.
Jim
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