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Re: [PLUG] Dual booting problem (RH 7.2/grub)
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Didn't think that one through. Thought I would have to check the BIOS.
Anyway, fdisk reports:
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 524 1056352+ 6 FAT16
Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4982 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/hde2 262 522 2096482+ 5 Extended
/dev/hde3 523 4155 29182072+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde4 4156 4167 96390 82 Linux swap
/dev/hde5 262 522 2096451 6 FAT16
so it looks like windows c:, hda1, is bootable. Any other thoughts on
what the problem might be?
Art
On Wednesday 26 June 2002 07:47 am, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> log off? Why not just look at it with fdisk?
>
> "Arthur S. Alexion" wrote:
> > 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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