Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The GRUB installation is where I started to get concerned again. First > it failed to detect Windows and said something along the lines of "It > appears Debian is the only OS on the system. In that case, you should > install GRUB on the Master Boot Record." According to what I had read, > this is one option for dual booting, but I wanted to leave the Windows > stuff as untouched as possible and boot with NTLDR (as I had with the > Mandrake installation). To do this, I wanted to install GRUB on the boot > sector of the Debian root partition (if I understand correctly). This is the ntfs thing, in the beta4 errata. > So I answered "No" to installing GRUB on the MBR. Next it asked me where > to install it. I had no idea what to enter. The default was (hd0). I > reasoned that I /did/ want it on that disk (in a boot sector of a > partition that I was hoping I could specify later), so I accepted that > default. And it apparently installed on the MBR, making it impossible to > boot Windows. This has already been fixed in svn. > So, I tried to guess what the "name" for the partition would be. In the > partitioning part of the setup, it was labeled as #4, so I figured it > would be (hd0,3) or /dev/hda3. I think I tried the former. Hasn't partman been changed to give the real device names somewhere or other? -- see shy jo
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