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can you post the latest version of your conf? Did you run a grub-install? or install the MBR from the grub command prompt?
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Okay, I did some snooping around the interweb, and I found out that if you want this to work, you can't have GRUB on the Master Boot Record. because I have tried evrything. And that somehow makes sense.
What do you think? Should I get rid of GRUB and try LILO? Or should I give up all the work I've done so far to reinstall windows and Debian?
What do you think? Should I get rid of GRUB and try LILO? Or should I give up all the work I've done so far to reinstall windows and Debian?
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I think you CAN have grub on the MBR since thats how i fired up this machine ;-)
You can use LILO or GRUB if you want, just pick something and see it through. If you want to use GRUB then post your grub.conf again so we can see what you are working with.
You can use LILO or GRUB if you want, just pick something and see it through. If you want to use GRUB then post your grub.conf again so we can see what you are working with.
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The important part (windows part) is here:
okay, I feel it necessary to say that I have GRUB 0.9.2 installed on my MBR. I think that might help. Are there more recent versions?
title = Windows root (hd0,4) #rootnoverify did the same thing makeactive #that seems to be the problem chainloader (hd0,4) +1 # I decided to try this, I found it somewhere online
okay, I feel it necessary to say that I have GRUB 0.9.2 installed on my MBR. I think that might help. Are there more recent versions?
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Windows was there first right? Are you positive that /dev/hda5 is windows? can you run this, as root, and post the results:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
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/dev/hda1 start - 3453 end - 4864 blocks - 11341890 ID - 83 System - Linux /dev/hda2 start - 1 end - 3452 blocks - 27728158+ ID - f System - W95 ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 start - 511 end - 1020 blocks - 4096543+ ID - 7 System - HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 start - 1021 end - 3452 blocks - 19535008+ ID - 7 System - HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda7 start - 1 end - 510 blocks - 4096480+ ID - 82 System - Linux Swap / Solaris partition table entries are not in disk order
AH! I remember, now! I put the Linux Swap in the first partition space! I took it out of the old Win-64 partition. Could that be why Linux is insisting that it is HDA1? I was told that windows HAS to be in the first partition, but I know otherwise. I had this Windows system booting just fine when I had another windows partition before it.
In case you didn't have this figured out:
My windows partition is not in the first slot. I had more partitions before it when I was dual-booting Windows XP x64 and Windows XP home. I stuck with home, and ended up having to reinstall it. That is when I changed the partitions around a bit. But you can get the idea from the output above.
Last edited by FireSBurnsmuP : Nov 15th, 2006 at 6:53 pm.
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