On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@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
