Re: problem with grub

From: yvon (y_gravel_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/07/05

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    Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 09:46:54 -0400

    Tommy Reynolds wrote:
    > On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:05:20 -0400, Yvon wrote:
    >
    >
    >>ok, I will try to be as clear as possible, english is not my mother
    >>tongue!
    >
    >
    > Your english is at least 1,000,000 times better than my
    > <whatever.your.language.is>, so we will work together.
    >
    >
    >>I installed fedora core 3 a few weeks ago, I always had a problem with
    >>grub but i found a way to get around it. When I start my computer
    >>windows will load, if I wanted to load fedora i had to press F8 while
    >>booting then I would had a menu, if I wanted to load from the DVD drive,
    >>floppy, one of the hard drives ect..
    >>If I press ESC then I would have Grub with the option to start Fedora!
    >
    >
    > We need to know your harddrive setup. From Linux, do this as the
    > root user:
    >
    > # fdisk -l /dev/hda
    >
    > and mail us the result.
    >
    > Linux can boot the Windows partition very simply. You need these
    > lines in "/etc/grub.conf":
    >
    > title XP
    > rootnoverify (hd0,1)
    > chainloader +1
    >
    > but we need to know where your Windows partitions are. The above
    > will probably work.
    >
    > Your brother probably just changed the "active partition" flag, using
    > fdisk on the Windows system. Do not change it back, when we get this
    > working, life will be much better.
    >
    > HTH
    >
    thank you for the answer, first, I tried to modifie grub the line for XP
    was hd1,0 I changed it for hd0,1 and it says that it's not a bootable
    disk. I have 2 160 gig hard drive. First one is sata and I have 3
    partitions, windows (ntfs), linux and swamp files for linux (1 gig I
    think) and the second one IDE with 3 partitions, one for music (all my
    cds) one for my pictures and another one for my wife, all of them fat32.

    I tried # fdisk -l /dev/hda in my terminal as SU and it didn't work, I
    get this message:
    bash: fdisk: command not found

    Thank you!

    Yvon

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