Re: grub not installing

MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:

One of the more experienced Linux people from one of the LUGs I
attend tried to Dual Boot my system with Edgy and Windows XP as I
think I have some speech games which won't work under Linux.
He brought a drive with him and tried to repartition it and he also
installed some extra memory for me.
He tried to get Linux to boot after it had repartitioned the drive
only for some reason he couldn't get grub to install even though he
was doing the correct commands to get it working it still refused to
boot. He has had to offer to help sort it out for me in February and
suggested I try and get hold of a blank drive which I could use.
Why couldn't he get grub installed which was why it wouldn't boot
into Edgy? When someone else installed Edgy on my laptop they
installed it no problem when using the Alternative CD although that
wasn't a Dual Boot system unlike what was supposed to have happened
on my desktop?

My wild guess would be some sort of hardware/firmware/BIOS boot record
protection, or maybe an insidious piece of antivirus software that
bootstraps "unused" areas of the MBR/boot record.

I'd check my advanced BIOS setup screens for the word "virus" or
"protect" first. If that doesn't turn up anything I'd look for a clean,
spare hard drive and try installing to that on your machine without
your other drive(s) hooked up. If all that works as it should I'd start
looking for ways to *completely* remove whatever bit of dross it is
that's resetting your boot sector for you after the grub virus infects
it. ;-)

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