grub install trouble

[crisponions]

I just finished installing gentoo on my laptop. I am dual booting with XP. I am trying to setup grub in my mbr and I get the "unrecognized partition 0x7" error for the root command and a "unable to mount partition" error when I try to run setup.

Here is the catch. I had grub loaded on the mbr before this install to boot another Linux distro. I figured if i kept my partitions the same grub would find everything OK. Not the case.

I have ran fixboot and fixmbr from windows recovery mode so it boots to XP ok, but I still cant get grub loaded.

[dblas]

This may or may not help. When you change/update grub you first have to mount /boot, where grub resides. Gentoo doesn't leave it mounted for security reasons. So, try mounting /boot (it's in fstab so "mount /boot" will work) and then "grub", i.e. re-install it on the mbr. Also, Wind'ohs sometimes does some funny things, especially if you are running anti-virus software, as it thinks that anything that is not Wind'ohs in the mbr it is a virus.

[crisponions]

I made sure the boot partition was mounted., that caught me a while back when I was trying to change kernels. I dont have any anti-virus on windows. If its any help the distro that loaded grub last time was Fedora. But all remenants of that are gone since I rebuilt the mbr.

Anyway to boot gentoo off of a live cd?

[cyrillic]

[crisponions]

Problem solved. Thanks alot. makes sense now that I think about it.