Jeremy Merritt wrote:
I have been having a problem getting my GRUB
bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do,
it
keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on
this list and got some good input. But have run
into a
dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and
tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what I need to do
to
get the GRUB menu to return the way it was when I
first installed Debian:
Steps so far:
1. Boot up with live CD (Knoppix)
2. Activate shell and go root
3. Mount /dev/hda5 as /mnt/hda5
4. chroot /mnt/hda5 /bin/bash
5. grub-install /dev/hda5 -- Reports successful
install but no results on bootup
fdisk -l information (hda5=Mandrake, hdb2=Debian,
system is booting from hda1=XP):
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2433 19543041 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2434 4865 19535040 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 2434 3197 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 3198 3337 1124518+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 3338 4865 12273628+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/hdb: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 3188 25607578+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2 * 3189 7298 33013575 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 7299 7476 1429785 5 Extended
/dev/hdb5 7299 7476 1429753+ 82 Linux swap
Disk /dev/hdd: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 3649 29310561 83 Linux
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From your listing, it seems that you have multiple
bootable partitions.
You should only have one. On hda, it seems that you
are booting from the
windoze partition, in which case, unless you have
configured the XP
boot-loader for linux, it will always boot into XP.
If hda2 is / for the
first linux system, I would make that bootable and
run grub from there.
I think you can also overwrite the MBR. I have a
dual boot laptop with
XP and debian. I overwrote the MBR and boot
everything from GRUB.
Art Edwards