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

Douglas Mayne wrote:

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

Douglas Mayne 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.) 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,

your suspicion was true, the XP bootdisk was defect! After I fixed it by
running CHKDSK from the XP boot disk I can now boot into both OSes again!

I've seen your post on the GRUB boot disk, and I'll also get that, since I'm
sure it will be useful in the future.

Thanks again for your support. Without your help I may have winded up
installing one or both OSes. That would have really been a waste of time.

I'm now trying to figure out, why my boot drive was corrupt, but this is not
a linux issue :) Strangely my mouse does not always work when booting into
XP ...

Olaf
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