dual boot problems after install
Craig Thomas
cjtinhp at optonline.net
Thu Feb 24 18:50:42 UTC 2005
Hi all,
I've installed FC3 on /dev/hdb and had a working windoze w2k install
on /dev/hda, but have trouble booting. I thought I had installed GRUB to
the MBR on /dev/hda as on other dual boots I've done, but clearly I am
not understanding exactly what has happened. To compound my troubles, I
seem to have made matters worse :(
After rebooting the first time I got
GRUB HARD DISK ERROR
after the BIOS loaded.
After googling and tinkering and googling some more, I tried the fix
here for FC2 [read it worked for some with my problem with FC3].
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html
Now, I get another error after the BIOS loads:
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Clearly, I've not fixed things :)
Now sfdisk -d reports it doesn't care for /dev/hda at all...
#sfdisk -d /dev/hda
sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
/dev/hda: unrecognized partition
No partitions found
Before I do anything else foolish, can anyone enlighten me as to what
I've done wrong? and maybe a pointer or two in the right directions.
Have I fubared the partition table for /dev/hda?
Any help greatly appreciated,
--
Craig Thomas <cjtinhp at optonline.net>
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