Re: Double checking grub-install -- LAST POST
Hi Tim and others who may have been watching this thread.
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:22 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 00:35 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Perhaps I am being just a bit stubborn, but I wanted to learn how to
> diagnose the problem first, not just write something over top of it.
Understanding what's going on is fine, and good. I don't discount the
importance of it.
The solution for a duff MBR is to rewrite the MBR with what you want.
You don't uninstall an unwanted bootloader, you put another boot record
(that you want) over the top.
Messed around a bit more; but the final outcome was the double
splashimages continue:
1) I ran "fixmbr" from my WindowsXP istallation/rescue disk.
in case there was some ghost of something left over from BootMagic.
2) then, I ran from my Fedora installation/rescue disk
on the rescue command line:
grub
root (hd1,4)
setup (hd0)
quit
Everything grub-like installed fine.
So the answer must be grub is switching video modes.
I wonder if I should report this as a Fedora bug against grub ?
I seem to be the only one with this issue -- and it is not a major
issue, just something I was hoping to clean up.
--
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1