Re: Re: etch + xp

if you lose your MBR, I think the easiest way to recover it
is booting from debian cd in rescue mode
type "rescue" before installation starts
then go to console, mount your hd, chroot to it and re-install grub
$ mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt
# I'm guessing that it's hdc1 where root ( / ) is.
$ cd /mnt
$ chroot .
$ grub-install /dev/hdc
ctrl + alt + del
your done!

hint: you will probably lose your MBR, like Douglas sad: windows is
megalomaniac


On 9/30/07, Owen Heisler <owenh000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 2007.09.30 13:14, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
But I want to install XP in another disk, different from which etch is
installed. So XP will install its own bootmanager into the mbr of this
different disk. Am I wright? Remember that I can tell the bios from what
disk the system boots. I gues I can use this in order to make the system
boot from the second disk, where XP is being installed, making XP ignore
the disk where etch is installed.

Windows XP will overwrite the MBR of the first drive listed by the BIOS
(the
one that is booted), so set the BIOS to boot from whatever drive you want
Windows to replace the MBR of. When you're done installing, switch it
back,
boot Debian, and set up grub to boot Windows with 'chainload'.

Back up your MBR first though. And: when I set up grub to boot Windows
once
for someone else, I found grub's 'hide' command and used it to hide the
Debian
partitions, thinking that the less Windows saw, the better. But Windows
(XP),
when those partitions were 'hidden' by grub, changed the partition types
to
Amoeba (whatever that is) and then grub would give an error on the next
boot.
Of course, problems like that should be expected when running Windows on a
system.

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Henrique G. Abreu
henrique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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