[Gllug] grub and dual booting with windoze xp

[Sean Burlington]

Hong Chyr wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sean Burlington <sean at uncertainty.org.uk>
> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:20:49 +0000 
> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] grub and dual booting with windoze xp
> 
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>>>I'm unable to boot with GRUB. I just get the "GRUB" prompt and the system 
>>>hangs. Restoring the MBR with fixmbr gives me windoze xp back, and booting 
>>>linux from the installation CD gets me that back.
>>>
>>>My menu.lst file is shown below. Note that with the gfxmenu line commented 
>>>out, GRUB gets past the prompt only to fail with either error 21 or 23 (I 
>>>can't remember which, but 23 is probably right).
>>>
>>>I've tried various methods such as installing the bootloader on the root 
>>>partition, copying it to a floppy with dd, putting it on the C partition 
>>>and editing boot.ini appropriately. This still gives me the "GRUB" prompt 
>>>and a hanging system.
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> I'm running RH7.3 on my laptop, dual booting with WinXP. But the difference was I wiped the original XP installation, repartition and installed XP and Linux on the same drive. That seemed to work fine for me. I can even hibernate the laptop and choose to reboot into Linux while XP thinks its still in hibernation.
> 
> Perhaps try installing SUSE on the primary drive and if that doesn't work maybe the problem's with hardware?
> 

I suspect that it's a hardware 'feature' of some sort

I have happliy set up multi-boot systems on other machines - but this 
one wouldn't play ball - I tried all sorts of things to get that hard 
drive wiped and some sort of reasonable boot loader installed - but only 
the windows bootloader would actually run from it - I guess it might be 
some kind of anti-virus bios thingy ...

does anyone know of 'security features' in bioses that could cause this 
sort of problem ?


-- 

Sean



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