Dual Boot, Grub, FC3-WinXpSP2, 2 drives. No go.

[Nat Gross]

Robert Locke wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:55 -0500, Nat Gross wrote:
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>>I thought so, too. But I just mounted both (vfat and ntfs) partitions 
>>under FC3, and there is no boot.ini file. At this point I am certain 
>>that for some reason (maybe due to an earlier install of Windows) 
>>Windows kept the boot.ini on C, hda, and used that to boot from E.
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>This is beginning to sound problematic and more of a Windows thing....
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>I am guessing that perhaps we would need to "repair" the Windows
>installation.  Offhand, I am not sure how to do this and I think that it
>will most likely attempt to overwrite the MBR part of the first disk.
>This is not necessarily a huge problem in that a quick linux rescue
>followed by a grub re-installation of the first stage bootloader can
>correct the damage potentially done by the Windows repair....
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>>One key question is, does grub require that I make hdb5 bootable?
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>So to speak.  GRUB is passing control to the NTLDR and BOOT.INI files.
>Remember that they are hidden/system files usually, so depending on how
>you tried to locate them might be why you did not see them (probably a
>pipe dream)???
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I used the 'search for files' applet and turned on the hidden files option.

>I think at this stage you may be looking to get some advice on how to
>repair the Windows partition unless someone else wants to jump in with
>advice on that side....
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Agreed.

>--Rob
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Thanks again.
-nat