[ltp] some ibm windows/linux questions

[David Tansey]

Oh, btw, I don't have a floppy drive. It is an x40...

On 6/21/05, David Tansey <djtansey@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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...
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> David
>=20
> 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > > 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.)
> >
> > 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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