Re: dual boot win2k and debian
IMHO, the setup command should be
grub> setup (hd0)
Then the grub stage1 file is located in the MBR of your hard disk. (hd0,0)
stands for the partition /dev/hda1, which is in your case the NTFS
partition. The command setup (hd0,0) will install grub in the "MBR" of
/dev/hda1, instead of /dev/hda. That's the reason why your W2K was
destroyed. Fortunately, you have command fixboot and fixmbr.
Good luck,
Qian
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 08:09:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Shawn Lamson <madzimambo@yahoo.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: dual boot win2k and debian
> Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 10:09:50 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> I tried running from floppy grub prompt
> grub> root (hd0,11)
> grub> setup (hd0,0)
> at which point it said it successfully updated the MBR and installed
> the grub files... then i rebooted and could get to debian fine, but
> rebooted again and when selecting the option for windows 2000 it just
> came back to the grub menu.lst display... I tried the command line
> option and several variations of the following:
> grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> grub> makeactive
> grub> chainloader (hd0,0)+1
> also tried it without the "makeactive", root (hd0,0) , root (hd0,11),
> chainloader +1, chainloader = (hd0,0)+1, chainloader = +1...
> (i don't think the "=" is necessary, it isnt necessary in grub options
> statements)...
> so it looks like the same thing happened as before, grub installed to
> the MBR but changed the "filesystem type" or corrupted the Partition
> Table or something, I cannot mount the ntfs partition from here
> (Debian) whereas when windows2000 is working i can mount the
> partition... i will have to run fixboot and fixmbr from the win2k CD to
> get back to windows 2000.
>
> Shawn
>
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