FC4: grub no longer allows windows booting
Noah
admin2 at enabled.com
Wed Aug 17 05:15:46 UTC 2005
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:49:14 -0700, Craig White wrote
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:44 -0700, oldman wrote:
>
> > 2) Possibly you have blown out the NT bootloader by, for instance,
> > installing grub to
> > /dev/hda1
> > This is the worse case as the only way I know to get it back is to
> > re-install windows
> > (if you choose to do this you may be able to save your files if you
> > choose not to format
> > and partition your drive).
> ----
> whoa - if it comes to this, ask the list. There is an easier way to
> 'FIXBOOT' on Windows
Hi there,
here is what my fdisk is showing me. do I need to get windows XP to fix
itself somehow? I really dont know what to do at this point.
--- snip ---
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 36482 293041633+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/hdb: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 36483 292945275 8e Linux LVM
--- snip ---
cheers,
Noah
>
> Craig
>
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