cannot reinstall grub after windows xp messes up partitions
Evan White
evwhite at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 3 02:19:01 UTC 2005
I'm running a Windows XP / FC3 dual-boot system on a
Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop and it was running fine.
Here's the partitions from fdisk:
device start end Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 4462 35840983 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4463 8287 30724312 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 8288 8300 104422 93 Amoeba
/dev/sda4 8301 12161 31013482 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda5 4463 8287 30724281 b W95 FAT32
Inside the LVM, there is a 2 GB Swap and the rest is
/.
I noticed that the Linux parition showed up in Windows
as F: and was concerned that Windows would somehow
corrupt the partition if it was mounted, so I looked
for ways to hide that partition from Windows. I ended
up changing my grub.conf file to include this line in
the Windows section: hide (hd0,2)
In hindsight, perhaps it should have been (hd0,3).
Anyways, upon reboot into Windows, I could tell that
Windows did something before I logging me in. It went
to that light blue screen that it uses for scandisk
for about 2 seconds, then it logged me in. The F:
drive was still visible, and when I rebooted, I got
the following error:
GRUB Loading stage1.5
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 17
Well I've seen this before, so I booted to my FC3 disk
and typed "linux rescue" then "chroot /mnt/sysimage".
I checked my grub.conf, which reads:
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.770_FC3)
Then I ran "grub-install /dev/sda" and got this:
The file /boot/grub/stage1 was not read correctly.
I didn't know what that was all about, but after
looking around, I found people suggesting the
following:
#>grub
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
To which I received:
Error 15: File not found
I am, however, about to browse to /boot/grub/ and I
can see the stage1 file. But for some reason grub
can't find it. Someone suggested using grub.img, but
I don't have a floppy drive. I do, however, have
network/internet access still enable thru FC3 rescue
mode.
Questions:
Firstly, is the hide command the best way to keep
Windows away from the Linux partition? What is the
best way?
Secondly, how do I reinstall grub successfully?
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