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Re: dual boot win2k and debian



Thank you Q. Gong, Bob Hilliard and Mike Crawford... I do notice now
the correct setup command would be 
grub> root (hd0,11)       #my / partition
grub> setup (hd0)         #not (hd0,0)
and after again reviewing the docs I see clearly where I messed up, it
all sounds logical enough, now let me repair with fixboot, fixmbr and
give it a shot... I will let you know how it turns out.

Shawn
--- "Q. Gong" <q.gong@tue.nl> wrote:
> 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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Shawn Lamson
Debian/GNU Linux Woody
Kernel 2.2.19pre17
XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1 / X Window System
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