F7-x86-64 Stopped Booting - GRUB Issue

[Raymond C. Rodgers]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>> Thank you for giving me the instructions on installing GRUB, but I'm 
>> very nervous about disturbing Windows again, and thus having to 
>> install two OSes again.
>>
>> Raymond
>>
>    Why did grub not boot both windows and Linux after you loaded 
> Linux? In the load sequence it gets to the grub section and ask's if 
> you want it. Then if yes you set up Linux and windows to be booted. 
> Why did this not work?
>
As I stated, Windows XP did not like having the MBR tampered with. I'm 
not a MCSE, so I didn't do much in the way of troubleshooting Windows, 
nor did I feel like going through the hassles on my personal computer. 
Furthermore, it was 7 months ago that I did the installations, and the 
details are no longer as clear as they once were.
>    You can reload the boot for windows by just running the install CD 
> for winXP. You should not ever lose windows.
>
See above. The few times I did try to use the WinXP recovery, I chose to 
use the automated recovery which failed to do anything useful.
>    Tell us more about your setup. How many hard drives? How did you 
> make partitions? Which partitions do you have now? What are the names 
> of the partitions, like /dev/sda3 and such?
>
At the time of installation, there was just a single SATA hard disk 
which I partitioned during WinXP's installation. As I'm about 20 miles 
from the machine at the moment (accessing it via RDP over ssh), I can't 
exactly pop a CD into it and boot linux to find out all the details at 
this time; I'll do that this evening. But, if memory serves, the Linux 
partition is at /dev/sda2.