Fedora Core 2 and Windows xp

[Ori Rosen]

--- Mikael Konttinen <micken at home.se> wrote:
> Ori,
> 
> No, I believe that is because you have overwritten
> the MBR (Master Boot
> Record) with GRUB, something that Windows XP cannot
> handle as it needs its
> own (NT) bootloader.
> 
> To recover your Windows into booting condition, you
> have to boot from the
> Windows CD into Recovery console and type FIXMBR.
> After that you should be
> able to boot Windows but not Linux. Then you have to
> re-install GRUB on your
> /boot partition bootblock, NOT on the MBR!
> 
> To boot Linux from the NT bootloader, you have to
> make a file of the linux
> /boot partition bootblock using dd and reference to
> it in the hidden system
> file c:\boot.ini.
> 
> If you want to use GRUB as first bootloader, you
> make the /boot partition
> active partition using fdisk. To be able to boot
> Windows XP from GRUB, add
> the following lines to grub.conf:
> 
> title WindowsXP
>     rootnoverify (hd0,x) <-- where x is your WinXP
> partition number, most
> likely (hd0,0)
>     makeactive
>     chainloader +1
> 
> For further (and more verbose) information, check
> out:
>
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
> 
> A dd ported to windows can be found at:
>
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm
> 
> (Note that dd for win32 references to harddisk
> volumes not as /dev/hdXY, but
> as \\?\Device\HarddiskX\PartitionY where both X and
> Y are numeral counting
> from zero)
> 
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Mkn.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ori Rosen" <ori_r2003 at yahoo.com>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 3:55 PM
> Subject: Fedora Core 2 and Windows xp
> 
> 
> > After installing FC2, when I try to boot windows
> xp
> > from the grub menu, I get the message: file is
> missing
> > or corrupt: Windows root\system32\hal.dll.
> > Is this a symptom of the problem described in
> > http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ori
> >
> 
> 
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Mikael,
Is there a way I can verify that the MBR has been 
really overwritten?

Thanks
Ori


		
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