Arthur S. Alexion on Tue, 25 Jun 2002 18:45:31 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Dual booting problem (RH 7.2/grub)


It's Win 95.  No boot.ini

On Tuesday 25 June 2002 03:48 pm, kaze wrote:
> If it's WinNT/2K you can boot up off a floppy then tweak the boot.ini
> file, assuming that's the problem.
>
> You can use Partition Magic (Grub?) to hide some of the partitions
> from Windows, possibly putting the C: and D: and E: back where it
> wants it.
>
> You might be able to run a repair or an 'update' reinstall of windows
> to fix it...
>
> ==> -----Original Message-----
> ==>
> ==> I installed RH 7.2 on a PC with an existing windows installation.
> ==> During the installation, I had grub installed in the MBR.
> ==>
> ==> This machine has two physical drives.  hda (1 gb) is the windows
> c: 
> ==> boot drive.  It contains all of the windows system files.  hde
> (40 gb)
> ==> is an ata/100 drive.  It has two windows partitions and
> all of the
> ==> linux partitions.
> ==>
> ==> Linux is the default boot and boots fine at that.  Windows will
> not
> ==> boot.  the message is "not a system disk.  remove and install
> a boot
> ==> disk, etc. . . ."
> ==>
> ==> I assume that writing to the MBR confused windows ability to
> boot, and
> ==> have the feeling that the solution is simple.  Nothing
> about it in the
> ==> books I have been using.  Any suggestions.

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