Re: Linux fedora core 4 ... GRUB loading stage2... booting message

someone92_at_hotmail.com
Date: 11/17/05

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    Date: 16 Nov 2005 16:31:40 -0800

    Ok, thanks for the help. I found the solution and if it can be useful
    to somebody, here's what it was. But I still don't understand why it
    was working fine for months and then stopped working for no reasons.

    Before installing fedora core 4, redhat 9.0 was installed instead and I
    was using the win2k boot loader to boot redhat. I made a copy of the
    redhat 9.0 boot sector using :
    dd if=/dev/hdb6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=446 count=1

    When I installed fedora, I didn't change the bootsect.lnk file on
    win2k's boot loader since everything was working without problems. I
    know it's stupid I should have made another copy of the boot sector,
    but it was working ... so ...

    Anyway I just made another copy of the current (fedora) sector and
    replaced the bootsect.lnx file and everything came back to normal. I
    still don't understand why it was working before.

    Thanks again for the help

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