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From: Amin <amin@siriusbb.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: grub doesn't load
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:06:16 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D6CF38.6010705@siriusbb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040620152104.GA594@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org>

Hal MacArgle wrote:
> Greetings: Missed most of this thread so forgive if I make a stupid
> comment especially since I know nothing of WinXP:
> 
> Did you change /boot/grub/menu.lst?? Maybe your lashup doesn't use
> that file? Also, read somewhere, that WinXP does some strange things
> to the MBR, etc.. Don't know what, etc..
> 
> I do have two machines booting with Grub, several versions of
> Slackware 9.X as default, or selected, and Win9X as a selection
> partition.. It does work well for us... HTH.

Reading this post I was reminded of something I had once 
done to recover me Linux installation (it was RH8) after I 
had installed Windows XP and it had wiped the MBR clean. 
Standard advice is to always install Windows first and then 
Linux, but I figured I could do the opposite and still 
recover everything.  I was right, but I went to this website 
for instructions: 
www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

HTH,

Yawar Amin
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-21 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-19 21:43 grub doesn't load Anshuman Singh Rawat
2004-06-20  8:08 ` pa3gcu
2004-06-20 11:59   ` Amin
2004-06-20 15:21 ` Hal MacArgle
2004-06-20 19:47   ` pa3gcu
2004-06-21 12:06   ` Amin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-19  0:33 Anshuman Singh Rawat
2004-06-19  2:11 ` James Miller
2004-06-19  7:56 ` pa3gcu

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