Re: Can't boot from bootdisk! Please help!

["Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com>]

Behrouz Bayat wrote:
> It's not raid. The pc is a P4, 60gigHD, 256MB RDRAM.
> Partitions are roughly:
> winXP:45gig, /boot:50mb, swap:512mb, /root:the rest.
>
> i don't remember the exact locations, but the order
> they were made in is the order shown above, so i guess
> hda1, hda2, hda3 and hda4? not sure about that though.

I assume that you created a / partition, and not a /root partition.

If you are going to reinstall, you do not need a /boot partition.  Just 
a / and a swap (maybe a /home).  Use grub as the bootloader (it works 
much better booting OSes past 8 GB), and install it on the MBR.  You 
should be given a choice in grub to boot either Windows or Linux.

If you want to try this before you reinstall, boot into linux rescue, 
and have it mount your partitions.  Type `chroot /mnt/sysimage`, and 
then install grub to the MBR:  `grub-install /dev/hda`.  Type `exit` 
twice, and it will reboot.  See if you can boot into Linux.

Forrest
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