On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:17:04PM +1000, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote:
A friend of mine had this happened to him:
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My PC has 3 installs of Windows XP SP2 accessed via
Windows boot manager.
When I install FC4T3 onto 10 gig of empty space on 2nd
hard drive, the install would complete successfully,
but on reboot the windows boot manager is still there,
with no sign of grub. I have installed 4 times with
same result.
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It seems as if anaconda 'forgot' to write the Grub on
the MBR of the Primary master IDE hard drive. Does
this sound like a known bug? Do you need more
information?
We are happy to raise a bug in bugzilla. A quick
search on bugzilla did not reveal a similar bug.
Thanks
Hari
It is too early in the morning to make guarantees but here are some thoughts:
1. It is not unheard of for the running of grub-install to not replace
the Windows boot-loader in the MBR. grub-install as a glitch that makes
it sometimes not to work.
2, So you can remove the boot-loader in one of 2 ways;
a. run the dos command: fdisk /mbr
b. run the unix command:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count 1
3. boot linux rescue and chroot to /mnt/sysimage that should be the /
partition of your linux. Then run:
grub
grub> root (hd1,1) <-- that assumes your /partition is on /dev/hdb1
If not change the ,1 part accordingly.
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> quit
I am also assuming that your grub.conf has the proper entries for the
Windows XP systems.
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