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lostinlinux
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 Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:05 am Post subject: Grub stopped booting windows (SOLVED) |
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So I just finished updating GCC, which also updated Grub, and for some reason my windows xp will not boot. The grub screen goes away and then brings me back to selecting the operating system. The windows section of my grub.conf file is shown below..any ideas?
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rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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fdisk -l
shows that /dev/hda1 is bootable.....I am running out of ideas
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yabbadabbadont
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:28 am Post subject: |
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Try reinstalling grub into the MBR like you did during your original installation.
Maybe that will fix it. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| Almost sounds like grub in the boot sector record. What does this show |
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lostinlinux
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | 00000000 EB 48 90 4D 53 44 4F 53 35 2E 30 00 02 20 22 00 .H.MSDOS5.0.. ".
00000010 02 00 00 00 00 F8 00 00 3F 00 FF 00 3F 00 00 00 ........?...?...
00000020 C6 73 84 02 43 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 .s..C(..........
00000030 01 00 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 02 ................
00000040 81 00 00 80 41 60 00 00 00 08 FA 80 CA 80 EA 53 ....A`.........S
00000050 7C 00 00 31 C0 8E D8 8E D0 BC 00 20 FB A0 40 7C |..1....... ..@|
00000060 3C FF 74 02 88 C2 52 BE 79 7D E8 34 01 F6 C2 80 <.t...R.y}.4....
00000070 74 54 B4 41 BB AA 55 CD 13 5A 52 72 49 81 FB 55 tT.A..U..ZRrI..U
00000080 AA 75 43 A0 41 7C 84 C0 75 05 83 E1 01 74 37 66 .uC.A|..u....t7f
00000090 8B 4C 10 BE 05 7C C6 44 FF 01 66 8B 1E 44 7C C7 .L...|.D..f..D|.
000000A0 04 10 00 C7 44 02 01 00 66 89 5C 08 C7 44 06 00 ....D...f.\..D..
000000B0 70 66 31 C0 89 44 04 66 89 44 0C B4 42 CD 13 72 pf1..D.f.D..B..r
000000C0 05 BB 00 70 EB 7D B4 08 CD 13 73 0A F6 C2 80 0F ...p.}....s.....
000000D0 84 F0 00 E9 8D 00 BE 05 7C C6 44 FF 00 66 31 C0 ........|.D..f1.
000000E0 88 F0 40 66 89 44 04 31 D2 88 CA C1 E2 02 88 E8 ..@f.D.1........
000000F0 88 F4 40 89 44 08 31 C0 88 D0 C0 E8 02 66 89 04 ..@.D.1......f..
00000100 66 A1 44 7C 66 31 D2 66 F7 34 88 54 0A 66 31 D2 f.D|f1.f.4.T.f1.
00000110 66 F7 74 04 88 54 0B 89 44 0C 3B 44 08 7D 3C 8A f.t..T..D.;D.}<.
00000120 54 0D C0 E2 06 8A 4C 0A FE C1 08 D1 8A 6C 0C 5A T.....L......l.Z
00000130 8A 74 0B BB 00 70 8E C3 31 DB B8 01 02 CD 13 72 .t...p..1......r
00000140 2A 8C C3 8E 06 48 7C 60 1E B9 00 01 8E DB 31 F6 *....H|`......1.
00000150 31 FF FC F3 A5 1F 61 FF 26 42 7C BE 7F 7D E8 40 1.....a.&B|..}.@
00000160 00 EB 0E BE 84 7D E8 38 00 EB 06 BE 8E 7D E8 30 .....}.8.....}.0
--- hda1 --0x0/0x508E78C00----------------------------------------------
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I would really like to not reinstall grub....it was a pain in the ass enough when I upgraded to .96...
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 12:44 am Post subject: |
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Well, it hasn't been overlaid by grub - of course, this usually only happens when a manual install is done incorrectly. Emerge should be fine, but it was worth asking.
Must be said that is not a standard XP boot sector either.
If it used to work, I'd regress grub back to the previous level - and mask it so you don't have this happen again. Can't understand why you think it was so difficult - I would consider grub one of the easiest packages to up/down-grade.
As an aside, I have grub masked so that I remain on 0.94, due to people reporting issues with later versions here on the fora. |
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lostinlinux
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: |
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upgrading wasn't the issue...the issue was that for some reason grub would not find my grub.conf and having to restart everytime to check was the pain
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:24 am Post subject: |
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how do you move grub back to the previous version?
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| Code: | /home/bubba $ emerge -pv =sys-boot/grub-0.96-r1
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild UD] sys-boot/grub-0.96-r1 [0.96-r2] -custom-cflags -netboot -static 1,041 kB
Total size of downloads: 1,041 kB
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Substitute the version to which you want to fall back. |
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lostinlinux
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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Just wanted to let everyone know I solved this problem....I didn't realize it until I installed an older version of Grub, but basically what happened was I installed grub to where windows was located, so when it tried to boot windows it would bring grub back up (in my case the version I unemerged). So the problem has been fixed.
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