FC1 on the enterprise?

Juan C. Valido jvalido at juancvalido.net
Sun Jan 18 17:11:51 UTC 2004


About the grub thing, it's probably in the MBR, if you have a win98 or
winme boot floppy boot from it and type fdisk /mbr and it's gone...
On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 11:22, John T Nelson wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> On the subject of FC1 problems, I recently tried to upgrade my RH 8 system 
> to FC1. While starting the upgrade, the installer exited complaining about 
> "corrupt or misaligned disk partitions". RH9 has the same problem with 
> this disk yet the old RH8 system boots and operates fine.
> 
> Well right after this attempted upgrade, FC1 seems to have snuck GRUB into
> either the MBR or chain loader because now when I try to boot Windows XP
> (which is on a separate disk), I get a GRUB L prompt and hang. So FC1
> seems to have shoved GRUB onto my system before verifying that the install
> was correct. I tried to correct this problem by using Windows XP Recovery
> Console but niether fixmbr or fixboot correct the problem.
> 
> And I really really hate GRUB. I've never been able to get that thing to 
> work properly and I'm miffed that FC1 pushes it on me without my consent.
> 
> So I have two issues:
> 
> 	1) Misaligned disk partition
> 	2) GRUB installed (on disk 2?)
> 
> Any suggestions on how to correct these problems?
> 
> -- John
> 
> 





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