Re: Problems reinstalling grub/lilo (they always hang at boot time ...)

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:36:02 -0600, Douglas Mayne <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The fact that the boot menu is displayed indicates that the Window's
boot drive bootsector is ok. However, the fact that neither Windows or
Linux will load (using the Windows loader) indicates something is
probably wrong with the windows partition's ability to read more files
beyond the bootsector and ntldr (these are not broken because the menu is
displayed.)

I wonder if OP inserted a partition, moving the windoze one? (PQmagic
will do that) ntldr enumerates partitions on boot, for example this
box I type on uses C: for boot / temp / paging, and winxp is on first
primary (D:) partition on second drive.

boot.ini has: "default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS"

The partition number may need changing? I'd like to see if output
of fdisk -l matches bootloader's. Also check BIOS boot drive selection.

Grant.
--
Memory fault -- brain fried
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