grub problem after reinstalling WinXP

Cuchulainn · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 107

I recently reinstalled windowsxp, and the mbr got overwritten by the installation. I have fixed this a couple of times before, by using the live-cd (version 1.4), mounting everything, then do a chroot, and reinstall grub again, but i cannot get it to work this time. My partitions are as follows:

hda1 = winxp
hda2 = ext.partition
hda5 = gentoo boot partition
hda6 = swap
hda7 = gentoo root partition

I get the following errors:
when i type:
root (hd0)
setup (hd0,4)
it says, cannot mount partition

If i try
root (hd0,4)
setup (hd0,4)
it cannot embed stage 1.5. It says not-fatal, but after rebooting i just get windows xp.

If i try
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0,4)
i get cannot mount partition again.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Cheers, Cuchu

chardros · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:49 pm Post subject:

What you want is:

root(hd0,4)
setup(hd0)

To · Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 3:55 pm Post subject:

Has it is on the manual and like I did in my workstation and for some friends:

Cuchulainn · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 107

Thanks for the quick help! setup (hd0) did the trick!

Cheers, Cuchu