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<DIV>firstly I just wanted to say hello. I have just started following the group and this is my first post. I am a linux newbie based in Nottingham, working for IBM. I have used Linux intermittantly in the past, but just recently been getting really into it with the latest generation of releases. (currently tried Gentoo stage 3 install, Mandrake 10 community, Suse 9.0 and fedora core 1, as well as lesser known peanut linux, Damn small and one floppy distros). I really hope I can learn a lot more with you guys and maybe even beat the cucumber challenge !!</DIV>
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<DIV>I saw the following problem and thought I'd throw in my two pence. please dont flame me if it's generally wrong as it worked for me ;-):</DIV>
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<DIV>I would have to say that I can sympathise with this problem. I had the same symptoms. when installing grub on my gentoo box i put it on the physical disk where linux is located . this caused problems when I wished to boot to windows XP, even though the (hdx,x) entries where correct</DIV>
<DIV>(windows was on the first physical disk, therefore (hd0,0) gentoo on the second therefore (hd1,0)</DIV>
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<DIV>I found that if i switched the numbers around so that windows was (hd1,0) and gentoo was (hd0,0) and booted from the second disk (changed option in bios to HDD-1 instead of HDD-0) this worked flawlessly.</DIV>
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<DIV>let us know how you got on.</DIV>
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<DIV>James<BR><BR><B><I>Philip Scott <pgs31@cam.ac.uk></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hmm,<BR><BR>Ignoring your partition-overlapping problem for a second (I don't _think_ it's <BR>what's causing this, it just looks like whatever it was that set them up did <BR>not have the correct drive geometry - I don't think (well, hope at least ;) <BR>installing fedora would have fiddled with them, and it doesn't seem to be <BR>fatal.)<BR><BR>If you can mount hda2 and hda3, then it seems strange to think that hda1 would <BR>be unmountable if you had ntfs support.<BR><BR>Here is a possible answer - which drive do you boot off (you can change this <BR>in the bios)? Has Grub inadvertently been installed on your windows partition <BR>(which would explain why you just get Grub back up again). When you press <BR>enter, does it move your selection back up to the top, in an <BR>i've-just-loaded-myself-again sort of fashion?<BR><BR>I find the grub drive numbers to be a bit.. strange, for
me they change around <BR>when I fiddle with settings in the bios. When you get to the grub screen, you <BR>should be able to get to a grub console - you can then check that the hd(0,0) <BR>is indeed the partition you think it is by trying something like<BR><BR>more(hd0,0)/<BR><BR>And then pressing tab to try and get it to autocomplete.<BR><BR>Before you resort to completely wiping hda, try booting of the XP CD, going to <BR>the recovery console thing - and there are commands to restore your boot <BR>record and mbr, they might be worth trying. I can't for the life of me <BR>remember what they are (I think you get a list by typing 'help'). It's <BR>'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' or something along those lines if I remember <BR>correctly.. <BR><BR>Let us know how things go! (I'm not completely out of ideas yet..)<BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Philip<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Nottingham mailing
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