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[oleksandr korneta]

on 01/13/2006 03:22 AM James Wilkinson wrote:

> 
> Do you have a fedora rescue CD? Can you use it? If not, I'd recommend
not right now. But it is not a problem to download it.

> leaving well alone. Get Fedora booting from NTLDR, and don't muck about
> with your boot sector. Otherwise you might not be able to get into
> either operating system.
The point of all this was to get rid of ntldr being on hda where linux 
is installed.

> 
> NT (and I'm including Win2K and XP) doesn't like having it's boot
> partition mucked about with. I suspect you could get it as far as
> beginning to load, probably as far as the second screen -- the one with
> the big Win2K logo. But you'd then run into problems once it had loaded
> all its drivers and tried to switch to protected mode disk access. While
> running, it doesn't get its idea of the location of the WINNT directory
> from the boot loader: it stores it internally.

whatever you say, nothing bad happened. The solution proposed above 
worked fine for me.

> 
> So I'd leave hdb as the master.
> 
> Unless you've edited /etc/fstab or /boot/grub/*, Fedora should Just Work
> once you've got it to boot. So it shouldn't worry if its /dev/hda has
> suddenly become a /dev/hdb.

I afford myself to disagree with you here. I happened once to install 
fedora on /dev/hdb, and then physically made it /dev/hda... Everything 
was messed up, I had to reinstall the system (just because I didn't have 
any other machine close to me to get alternative solution)


> 
> What you should be able to do is use the rescue CD to put grub into the
> MBR of Windows' disk.
> grub-install /dev/hda
> *Not* /dev/hda1, that's where NTLDR goes.
Once again: I had this configuration in the beginning. The whole point 
was to make different system physically independent of each other, even 
of small components.


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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

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