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Re: [PLUG] Dual booting problem (RH 7.2/grub)
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Good idea. I'll log off and check
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 02:24 am, Sean Finney wrote:
>
> don't know too much about grub, but i have one idea:
>
> is the fat32 partition labeled bootable in the partition table?
>
> --sean
>
> > >
> > > ==> -----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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