Paul . L . Snyder on Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:26:40 -0400


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


Could you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst?

pls

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Paul L. Snyder - Planning & Emerging Technology
SCS Engineering - GlaxoSmithKline

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Date: 06/26/2002 09:32:04 AM
Subject: 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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