Re: 2 HD, 2 OS, and grub issues

ggtuki@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Friends,

While there are a ton of posts about how to fix the problem I'm
currently having, none of them actually seems to fix it. It's likely
due to my negligence, but I can't figure it out. Here's the problem:

I have two hard SATA hard drives on my Dell XPS 600. The first is a
160GB Samsung, running Windows XP Pro (also has a recovery partition
from Dell). The second is a 100GB Maxtor, onto which I have installed
Fedora Core 5 from a dvd. When I did the installation, I manually
partitioned the 100GB (/dev/sdb) into three (/boot, swap, and /), and
had grub install itself onto /boot. All seemed to go okay, but when I
rebooted, it went straight to XP. Not unusual, I thought, since it's
not really loading into the MBR.

So then I did a linux rescue, and went to /boot, where I did the dd
trick (dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/mnt/floppy/bootlinx.bin size=512 count=1) to
copy 512 bytes onto a floppy.

I then rebooted, copied the bootlinx.bin file to C: and inserted a line
into my boot.ini.

Rebooted again, and gave me an option to boot into XP or Linux. Chose
Linux. On a new screen, I received "Grub _" on the upper left corner.

Tried reinstalling grub using "grub-install /dev/sdb1" and then
rebooted after doing the dd trick again, and still no luck.

Here's some info:
# more device.map
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb

#fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
/dev/sda1 Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 (active) HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 100GB
/dev/sdb1 (active) Linux
/dev/sdb2 Linux swap
/dev/sdb3 Linux

#df
/dev/sdb3 mounted on /
/dev/sdb1 mounted on /boot

Hope someone can help!!! Thanks in advance,

Kartik

Ditto here, I used to have this working under 64 bit SUSE 10.0 but when
I switched to 32 bit I couldn't get it to work. My first 4 disks are
SATA soft raid and are not accessible from Linux. My 5th IDE disk is
devoted to Linux. I too got "Grub _". If I write a MBR record to the
Linux disk and move it over I get a worse error.

.

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