BIOS upgrading

[John Summerfield]

Jacques B. wrote:
> On 10/26/07, Marcel Janssen <korgull at home.nl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> After installing fedora on my system, I was no longer able to boot in windows
>> (or fedora). It seemed grub failed due to a bad BIOS, so I was in need for a
>> BIOS upgrade.
>>
> Karl has a point, what concludes you to believe it is your BIOS?  When
> you say PC does not boot, where does it fail?  Before grub, during
> grub, post grub?  Can you enter your BIOSto see if it sees your drive
> properly?
> 
> One solution to try would be booting from a rescue CD and
> re-installing grub.  If you simply want to get Windows back up
> initially you can run fdisk /mbr which will cause the master boot

Recent Windows doesn't have fdisk.

On my f8t3 system, where Anaconda neglected to add Windows, typing this 
works ad a grub prompt:

chainloader (hd0,0)+1
boot

I've not needed "makeactive," but some might.


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