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brain Apprentice
Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 229 Location: Farmington Hills, MI
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:23 am Post subject: REALLY weird Grub problem |
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Alright guys, this one has me pulling my (now graying) hair out.
Here is my setup:
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/dev/hda: Windows 2000
/dev/hdb1: Gentoo /boot
/dev/hdb2: Gentoo swap
/dev/hdb3: Gentoo /
/dev/hdc: Windows 2000/NTFS
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Alright, for almost 6 months this set up has worked just fine. Grub is configured as follows:
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root (hd1,0)
setup (hd0)
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With the menu.lst file being like so:
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title Linux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/linux-2.4.19 root=/dev/hdb3
title Windows 2000
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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Now for the problem. Everything was just peachy until I installed SP3 for Windows 2000 the other night. Ever since then, whenever Win2k is loaded up and then an attempt is made to reboot the machine, on that subsequent boot the machine gets to where Grub is supposed to load, but then suddenly the machine reboots itself again. And then it loops forever.
Booting into Linux, Grub survives the reboot just fine (of course)
The fix is to boot off the Gentoo cd, run the basic grub setup over again:
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root (hd1,0)
setup (hd0)
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And all is well until I boot up Windows 2000 once again.
I'm completely lost. It's obvious that Win2k is mangling the boot record on its drive somehow on every boot, but I'm not sure why or how to resolve it.
ARGH! _________________ --brain |
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20054
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 3:56 am Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo since the system is already running.
Quote: | Installing Gentoo
If you've finished the install guide, look somewhere else. But if you're still working your way through it, or just need some info before you start your install, this is the place. |
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wilbertnl Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 89 Location: Tulsa, OK, USA
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 4:07 am Post subject: Just a thought... |
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It's just a thought, what happens when you start win2000, and let it recreate the bootrecord (like fdisk /mbr).
Bye bye Grub for now, you restart win2000...
And then again after win2000 is happy, you boot from CD and reinstall GRUB?
A suggestion: create a floppy with GRUB, makes it a little bit easier to boot linux, at least until you have sort this out. _________________ Wilbert van Bakel
Strive for excellence, not perfection |
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simcop2387 Apprentice
Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 200 Location: Galactic Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha
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Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2002 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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well if you can try using lilo, might help, i recall a guy having problems with xp and grub before, and using lilo fixed it right up |
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rommel Veteran
Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 1145 Location: Williamsburg Virginia
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 3:55 am Post subject: |
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well i have win2k and sp3 installed and dual boot with grub and its all fine...imho i wouldnt switch to lilo but try to correct the issue....grub is way better then lilo. i am not sure but i dont believe fdisk /mbr will work with 2k i think its more of a 9x thing. you might try reinstalling windows ontop of itself although that could cause some problems too....i have a gateway that runs win2k and i (at 3am,first mistake) decided to update that machine and install service pack 3 , well long story short it borked the connection and put the pcmcia card for my wireless isp on the same irq as the system timer...couldnt access the tcpip settings for the card to figure out what my ip (static) gateway and dns numbers were.
also i second the grub floppy , its pretty useful thing to have |
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brain Apprentice
Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 229 Location: Farmington Hills, MI
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2002 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Well, so far no progress.
I put a new floppy drive in the machine so I can do the floppy boot thing.
i've wiped the MBR, reinstalled Grub about a 1000 times and the same thing happens again.
Short of wiping out the Win2k partition, I'm not sure what else to try!
ARgh... I hate Windows _________________ --brain |
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bluesky Apprentice
Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 230 Location: USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2002 1:00 am Post subject: re: problem with grub and dual boot |
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I am not much of a trouble shooter unless I were on to the problem itself. So, I just make a suggestion: try boot.ini and bootpart. But first install GRUB and set it up in the /boot partition.
I am kind of a hobbyist, so I used boot.ini, Grub floppy and SBM floppy in the same computer which is multiboot:
HD#1(10gig): windows 2000 pro + redhat 7.3 base+ LFS
HD #2(40gig): freebsd + redhat 7.3 + gentoo 1.2 + slackware 8.1.
Actually, it's kind of help. Since I manipulating the partitions a lot, the three boot loaders kind of help each other. And I always stay away from the MBR.
_________________ bluesky
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