I'm not sure I want to do this - it seems pretty weird. I also don't have FAT32. I did find a very similar solution on the web. I see no reason though why GRUB should not do its job. On 30 Jul 2004 at 18:00, Michael & Colleen McDonald wrote:
You've got all the symptons of the problem I has a few weeks back. I still haven't had time to document the problem.
Very briefly it was 1. copy the MBR of hdb1 to a file (in a FAT32 partition ... /dev/hda5) accessible by the Windows system (used Knoppix for that) and then into the main Windows partition (NTSF) 2. Add a line to the Windows boot.ini to boot from this file.
Note that I installed Fedora first on the slave drive (3 partitions), so when I installed Windows, the first partition on the master drive became G: for Windows.
BUT ... it has to be described as C: for boot.ini !!!!
Command for 1 was dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/mnt/dos/hdb1.mbr bs=512 count=1
boot.ini file contents in Windows systemis ... [boot loader] timeout=10 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect C:\hdb1.mbr="Linux - Fedora Core"
Cheers Michael
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Grimshaw" <mark(a)sirfragalot.com> To: <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 4:21 PM Subject: [wlug] GRUB woes
Hi all,
I recently upgraded hardware (m'board, CPU, video, RAM etc.) on the system that I've been using dual/boot/GRUB (W2K and, recently RH9) for the last 2 years.
Knowing I would have to reinstall the OSs, I installed W2K first then RH9.
Unfortunately, I seem to have misplaced GRUB and the system simply goes straight to the W2K boot up.
With RH9 installations, I've never been able to make a floppy at the end of the install process (seems to be either a RH9 'feature' or the kernel is too large for the floppy) but have always made the boot floppy from within linux. So, I'm unable to boot linux from this imaginary floppy. My previous RH9 boot floppy clearly has the wrong kernel for the new hardware and I can't load that (both boot floppies I have).
I've lost count of the number of times I've reinstalled RH9 in the last few days or chosen the upgrade option from the CD each time trying some different combination of boot loader (including trying to go back to LILO). I've even tried sticking GRUB and LILO on the MBR rather than the boot partition.
I have Tom's rtboot and a GRUB floppy both of which run. From these, including the RH9/boot CD/linux rescue option, I've tried grub-install options and grub commandline (root (hd1,0); setup (hd1)) options - each time I get an installed successfully message but each boot, up comes Windows.
I have two HDs: W2K (inc. linux swap) on hda LINUX: /dev/hdb3 / /dev/hdb1 /boot
I know most HOWTOs state that the linux boot should be on the same hard drive as the windows OS but these are the partitions I've been successfully dual-booting from with GRUB for the past 2 years.
I have no more hair left to tear out - please help.
Mark.
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