FC4: grub no longer allows windows booting
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Aug 17 15:41:11 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 08:19 -0700, oldman wrote:
> Doesn't work in my situation The console says it found a bad boot
> says it replaced it, but
> can't boot to it. Heres my disk:
> Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 14 14592 117105817+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5 14 1288 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda6 1289 3200 15358108+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 3201 3264 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda8 3265 4539 10241406 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 4540 4794 2048256 83 Linux
> /dev/hda10 4795 6619 14659281 83 Linux
>
> my grub.conf sets root to (hd0,4) but gives me an error, something like
> bad executable.
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you might want to post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf
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>
> Interestingly, fixboot did not affect the MBR, as grub boots normally.
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FIXBOOT isn't supposed to do a thing to the MBR.
FIXMBR would do that but that would be disastrous to grub and booting
Linux
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>
> The only thing I can think of is that Win2k
> doesn't like being on an extended partition, but what is fixboot
> writing, and where is it writing to? Beats the hell out of me!
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Win2K should be fine with where it is, it just needs to know where it
is.
Might be interesting to know what is in C:\boot.ini which you can look
at if you boot Win2K/WinXP System Restore CD and enter Recovery mode
(Console) - This is the thing that FIXBOOT is supposed to operate upon.
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>
> Any way, sorry for the bum steer to Noah. I'll probably get around to
> wiping Windows one of these days (haven't booted it in about a year -
> Maybe I'll just get another linux distro).
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that wasn't a bum steer, that was an opportunity to wreak havoc. Telling
people to re-install Windows when it isn't necessary is better left to
the support staff at Dell/Sony/HP-Compaq/Gateway/etc.
Craig
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