On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Raf Roger <raf.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mellert...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 01/30/2013 01:08 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> > On 01/30/2013 10:11 AM, Raf Roger wrote: >> >> i tried it and still have the windows boot manager when my HDD >> boot :( >> >> instead of having "system not found" (which is the typicall >> message when >> >> boot sector is not found in windows) >> > >> > When you installed, where did you have it put grub? It sounds as >> though you didn't put it in the MBR, or if you tried, it didn't >> work. Maybe you need to have grub re-install itself and make sure, >> this time, that you specify the right place. >> One other thing to keep in mind - the BIOS may be set to boot from >> the wrong drive. This is especially true with some of the "smart" >> BIOSs. They keep tract of what disk you had selected to boot from, >> and boots from that drive. >> >> Another "gotchya" is that the drive order may be different when >> booting from a DVD/CD/USB drive then when booting from the hard >> drive. So /dev/sda may not be your boot drive when you select >> booting from the hard drive. You can usually reset this in the BIOS... >> >> Mikkel >> - -- >> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and >> taste good with Ketchup! >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlEJcSIACgkQqbQrVW3JyMSDEwCfQOmC20HQrg2a3+eCulN/e+mS >> EfMAoIWQ0y+2GIwyXObNrtudlaJgusCH >> =aZHx >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> > > Hello Mikkel, > > so i will try to answer to everything in order :-) > 1. after disconnecting all other HDD, and boot on the HDD i formatted, > everything seems ok and computer requests me a booting device... so i > discovered that i have a HDD that includes a boot sector...my D:\ drive... > so i need to remove Windows Boot Manager from this one.... but without > deleting or losing any data as i have backups on this drive. > > someone could confirm me that for that i need to type dd if=/dev/zero > of=/dev/sdb bs=446 count=1 > > i REALLY do not want to loose data from this HDD :-( > > 2. in the bios, my first HDD to boot is the one i want to install Linux :-) > > 3. in bios the first device to boot on is CD/DVD, USB key and HDD > i have no CD/DVD except Linux one, and no usb HDD/key connected so no prob > :-) > > I hope i did not forget any question. > > Al. > > so i just drop a line here to tell that gparted helped me to remove the flag boot on this bad HDD and now my problem is solved. Great thx to all of you.
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