hi, still no joy after another grub-install. i have (hopefully) attached 2 pictures of my boot-sector bytes. one shows current state (grub.gif) and the other shows what happens when i do FDISK /MBR using a windows98 boot disk. in both cases i get the same behaviour, start-up just keeps rebooting the PC. and in both cases i get normal boot-up happening if i boot off my SystemRecoveryCD and then tell it to boot off disk1. weird, huh? grant > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:56 +1300, Grant Allan wrote: >> hi, >> >> after a short break, here is my current status: >> >> i have installed FC4, and seem to have successfully installed grub into >> /dev/hda to dual-boot me into windowsXP or linux. however, it doesn't >> work without intervention: >> >> if i insert SystemRecoveryCD and ask it to boot from "disk1", then i >> get >> to grub, and everything is fine. i can start either OS. > > Boot off the rescue CD of your FC4 set. Let the system find and mount > your system disk at /mnt/sysimage. > > At the shell prompt, enter these commands: > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda > exit > exit > > Pop out the CD and see if the system will boot from the hard drive. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens vitalstream com - > - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - > - - > - What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free? - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
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