Sean Finney on Wed, 26 Jun 2002 01:25:35 -0400


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


On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:41:46PM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> It's Win 95.  No boot.ini

don't know too much about grub, but i have one idea:

is the fat32 partition labeled bootable in the partition table?

--sean

> 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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