I tried running from floppy grub prompt grub> root (hd0,11) grub> setup (hd0,0) at which point it said it successfully updated the MBR and installed the grub files... then i rebooted and could get to debian fine, but rebooted again and when selecting the option for windows 2000 it just came back to the grub menu.lst display... I tried the command line option and several variations of the following: grub> rootnoverify (hd0,0) grub> makeactive grub> chainloader (hd0,0)+1 also tried it without the "makeactive", root (hd0,0) , root (hd0,11), chainloader +1, chainloader = (hd0,0)+1, chainloader = +1... (i don't think the "=" is necessary, it isnt necessary in grub options statements)... so it looks like the same thing happened as before, grub installed to the MBR but changed the "filesystem type" or corrupted the Partition Table or something, I cannot mount the ntfs partition from here (Debian) whereas when windows2000 is working i can mount the partition... i will have to run fixboot and fixmbr from the win2k CD to get back to windows 2000.
Shawn --- Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will try that, but I recall trying it before and getting an error; > something like "File not found"... I will reread the grub doc and > reboot, give it a shot, and take note of the results > (sorry the original post isn't included in this reply) > Shawn > > --- "Michael D. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should be able to do what you want. > > > > It sounds like you are running grub-install from the Linux command > > line. While > > that ought to work, I recall reading in the grub doc that they > > recommend that > > you install it to the boot sector of your drive from the command > line > > that you > > can get inside of grub when you boot off the grub floppy. > > > > Doing the install from the grub command line while running grub as > a > > normal > > Linux process definitely doesn't work. > > > > Possibly there is some problem that grub has with the geometry of > > your drive > > because of your old bios. There may be something you can say to > grub > > to deal > > with that, but I don't know what it would be. > > > > Mike Hi all - ---including original post---- Sorry if this is not debian specific, let me know if there is a better place to post this (please don't suggest a RedHat List!)... I just put in a new HD (80Gigs of which only 32G are used currently b/c my bios is old) and I put Win2k on the first 15 Gigs; then a Lin Swap drive of 512Megs; then my Debian install of Sarge on various partitions after that to consume the rest of the 32Gigs... I use grub as a boot loader... I can successfully boot to both systems from a single grub floppy, but when i #grub-install (hd0,0) it writes that boot block and Win2k won't boot, no matter what options I try... after I use the Win2k CD to get a recovery console and run both C:\>fixboot and C:\>fixmbr I can use the floppy to boot back into win2k or debian... Is there a way I can boot either system without using the floppy (ie; from HD)? Obviously I would prefer not to have to re-partition, I would rather use the floppy than re-partition for now... but if I do re-partition am I correct in thinking that I should reserve a first partition of say 50 Megs to but boot files for all the different OS's on a System? Thanks for any help -- if you need specifics on my setup let me know. Shawn Lamson __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
