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Re: Wheezy GRUB problem



On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net> wrote:
On 05/08/14 03:36 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote:
Hello!

I have a Wheezy system shared with MS XP. GRUB is not in MBR but in Debian partition installed. Not recommended I know but basically works. Until last upgrade when my GRUB loader only writes GRUB then halts. Or at least not continue loading. No errors just stops. I have tried latest (7.6.0) Debian install disc Recovery function to reinstall grub with grub-install /dev/sda2 without success. Still just a GRUB line on screen when Debian partition is active. When I switch active partition back to XP it runs. I am able to mount sda2 from Debian installer and there is no fsck error.

So my MBR is good and there is some error in sda2 partition loader which I cannot recover with grub-install. Any idea where to go then?

Bye,
a
Why not try installing grub in the MBR? It usually can boot both Windows XP and Linux without problems. If you were using a version of Windows that required UEFI then you night have a problem, but not with XP.

Thanks for your answer. I would like to keep my current configuration because it is more flexible I think. For example I just had to change boot partition to XP for a successful boot which is a very simple process.

I've found supergrubdisk project and I will give it a try. I hope that works.

As a last resort I would like to know how to convert my loader from VBR GRUB to MBR GRUB?

Bye,
a

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