Some problems collected from our LinuxSir.Org forum

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Wed May 11 19:38:39 UTC 2005


Peter Jones wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:48 -0500, Gerry Tool wrote:
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>>Peter Jones wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 19:40 +0800, Yuan Yijun wrote:
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>>>>unknown state:
>>>>grub (cannot boot winxp anymore, unless do a grub-install before
>>>>reboot)
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>>>I can't duplicate this.  If you've got more info on the setup, that'd
>>>help.
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>>I'm just guessing, but this might be due to the bug that overwrites the 
>>MBR even when Anaconda is told to put grub in the first sector of the 
>>boot partition. (bug #151204)
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>Then grub-install wouldn't fix it...
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That depends on how one recovers from having the MBR overwritten.  I 
normally have grub controlled from my "main" distro, i.e., FC3 at the 
moment.  That grub.conf contains the records to boot every installed 
system, including Windows XP.  So, after the MBR gets overwritten, I 
have to boot to FC3 from a rescue disc and then run grub-install in FC3 
to get back to the normal situation.

I, of course, don't know if that is at all related to the problem the 
original user submitting the pos is experiencing.

Gerry




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