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brentshreve
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 Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:52 am Post subject: dual boot problem, grub was working fine... |
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hey all,
this should be the last step of my installation that i'm stuck on. i got gentoo up and running with the gnome enviroment fine (with the help of a fellow board member).
I wanted to dual boot into windows xp so my grub.conf file looked like this:
| Code: | default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-r6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3 udev
initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.12-r6
title=Windows XP
root (hd0,3)
makeactive
chainloader +1 |
The grub loader worked great until i installed windows onto the computer on the ntfs partition.
my partition table looks like this:
/dev/hda1 * 83 linux
/dev/hda2 82 linux swap
/dev/hda3 83 linux
/dev/hda4 7 ntfs
when i installed windows onto the ntfs partition, did i erase the linux installation? windows shows that the drives are still there. why will the grub boot window not come up?
thanks for your time in responding,
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z00mIn
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Location: Cape Town, South Africa
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:45 am Post subject: |
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You Linux installation is probably OK.
The problem is that Windows XP (and any other Windows flavor, AFAIK) modifies the boot sector of your harddrive when you install it, so Windows is always booted.
One way to solve that is to boot from the Gentoo CD again (just as you did when you installed it), mount your partitions and chroot once again and then repeat the grub setup sequence.
Hope that helps.
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meph84
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| Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:48 am Post subject: |
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True. Just type | Code: | | grub-install /dev/hda |
as root, and it will work fine again
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