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

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:50:12 +0200, Olaf wrote:

Douglas Mayne wrote:

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:10:55 +0200, Olaf wrote:

Douglas Mayne wrote:


snip


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.) Have you made any changes to your BIOS settings, or crashed
Windows recently? Because you have two discs, I think chances are good
that whatever has damaged your system, it is isolated to one disc or the
other. All clues point to your Windows partition being damaged. I am
assuming you haven't damaged your system by making a mistake in the
recovery process or by attempting to change something else just before the
failure.

You should also rule out hardware failure. There are some tests
which you can perform on your hard discs. Do you have the hard disc
manufacturer's diagnostic CD for your hard discs? Most diagnostic CDs have
read only tests which do simple checks to verify your hardware is working.
If you don't have that disc, you can use the GNU/Linux command dd.


I could post a grub bootable CD image if you think that would help.


Douglas, yes if you can point me to a grub bootable CD image that would
provide some help. The first thing I'll do is reinstall XP since I have no
clue how to recover that, on the other hand I'm pretty sure I can recover
the Linux installation :)

Thanks for your help.
Olaf

See my last post here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.setup/msg/602040b59e1eac50

These instructions are buried in there:

Specific Instructions:

1. Obtain software (compressed image and checksum) here:
http://www.xmission.com/~ddmayne2/grub/v0.97/grub.iso.gz
http://www.xmission.com/~ddmayne2/grub/v0.97/md5sums

--
Douglas Mayne
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