boot halts and restarts PC

[Grant Allan]

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.
>
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