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From: | Martin Felker |
Subject: | Installing Grub on HD fails! |
Date: | Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:33:09 -0400 |
Hi everyone!
This is my first post to this
list and I need some help and advice. I have a very simple
setup. Windows XP is installed in the first partition of one of my
two identical 40 GB drives. I've used Partition Magic to create a
/boot, / and swapspace partition in the remaining 3 partitions where I've
installed Red Hat Linux SkipJack Beta 2 (release 7.2.93).
With some (ok a lot) of fiddling I've finally
created a GRUB boot floppy which allows me to boot either OS.
But when I try to install GRUB
(grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/hda) using the GNU documentation the
installation is reported successful but I always get the message "NTldr is
missing or corrupt reboot using Ctrl-Alt-Delete).
However the simple GRUB
commands
rootnoverify
(hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
ALWAYS boots to the NT bootloader menu (I also have
Recovery Console installed).
I've forgotten the Linux menu item but it is
something like
root(hd0,1)
kernel --- blah
blah.img
Initrd /initrd.img
(Sorry I'm using Outlook Express).
Using Recovery Console fixmbr command also doesn't
work - I need to have the XP CDROM in place or now the "magic GRUB
floppy".
I can "fix" the problem as far
as XP goes but ONLY by re-installing the OS - a 40 minute operation.
Then as SOON as I boot Linux using a Linux boot floppy (Syslinux etc) the MBR
seems shifted by one sector.
Can you folks help me out
here? I sure like to boot from the HD! BTW changing the
order of the BIOS boot devices from my current floppy, CDROM, HD doesn't help
either - always get the NTldr message - NOT the GRUB menu.
Martin Felker
Black Ridge Computer
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