Dual Boot and FC 5

David Boles dgboles at comcast.net
Mon Apr 10 21:02:19 UTC 2006


Mike McCarty wrote:
> Russell Golden wrote:
>> Yeah I have to do that every so often with my Shrike/WinXP laptop. It
>> wasn't that XP wouldn't boot, though, sometimes when i start it i get
>> this weird series of console beeps that really shouldn't be there. I
>> just boot linux, do a #grub-install /dev/hda and it's back to normal.
>> sometimes the MBR just randomly screws up *shrug* never trust a computer
> 
> Pardon me, but the MBR *never* just randomly screws up.
> Either
>     (1) something is writing over your MBR, or
>     (2) you have a hardware problem
> 
> Mike

The beeps on boot are a code. Go here.

http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/PC/beep.php

-- 


  David




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