[ltp] some ibm windows/linux questions

[David Tansey]

Indeed I should have run grub-install /dev/hda -- I had just been
testing mount options for /dev/hda1 for the past few minutes so I
automatically typed hda1 when doing grub-install.

I have tried the "leave out the chainloader+1" part. It just jumps
back to the main grub menu after printing root... for a split second.

I am using the IBM rescue disks -- does anyone have experience with
those wrt wiping out all partitions. I don't remember the last time I
did it, but I think that it wiped out everything...

Thanks,

David

On 6/20/05, Florian Trippel <florian.trippel@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I ran grub-install /dev/hda1 by accident and can no longer
> > boot into windows.
>=20
> AFAIK you should have run: grub-install /dev/hda
> The problem ist you have probably overwritten your windows partition.
> You should verify with  fdisk /dev/hda. Otherwise there do exist some
> tools being able to recover from ntfs, just in case there was
> something worthful for you on your windows partition ;-). Try easy
> recovery or rstudio, as those recognise files by signatures.
>=20
> > solved anything. (The most promising one was using dd to
> > backup the bootsector and then put in the backup boot sector
> > into the superblock of /dev/hda1.)
>=20
> if you want to boot windows xp, leave out the chainloader+1 part shown
> in most grub examples (just root(...) makeactive). It never worked for
> me ...
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