Thanks for replying Tim; On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 16:05 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:15 -0400, William Case wrote: > > I have to run fixmbr on my WindowsXP harddisk (sda). I assume this > > use of fixmbr will blow away my grub. > > It will change the master boot record to suit Windows. If you'd > previously put GRUB on there, you'd lose it. > > I'm not sure that I see the point of running fixmbr, then doing > something else to undo it. > I was trying to avoid wasting peoples time with a long description. When I first boot I get the Fedora grub splash screen/menu twice -- besides that everything else boots normally. About four weeks ago my commercial boot loader was blown away by the WindowsXP sp3 download and install. Fine and good: that didn't surprise me. I just installed grub. During a first attempt at a grub install I had an ooops! So I just re-installed grub and everything seemed fine. Because it was an oops and not a confusion, I didn't pay attention to the mistake, so now a month later I have forgotten exactly what I did wrong. Besides I thought I had recovered. About a week ago (I don't re-boot very often), I noticed the Fedora grub splash screen appear for 1/2 second or less, then go blank and pause for a second or two. Then a new splash screen appeared and everything progressed fine from there. This occurs definitely during the grub stage of bootup. I didn't do anything then because I was going to fresh install Fedora 9 with a new grub on the weekend. Which I have done. But the double splash screen still appears. > > after running fixmbr I will go to my Fedora rescue disk and do: > > In the hopes that I can eliminate this double boot. > > grub-install --root-directory=/boot /dev/sdb > > > > That is; I want grub stage1 on the mbr of sda while I want stage2 on > > sdb /boot. > I will use the grub command as you have given me to see if I can find where the problem is. > Shouldn't really be necessary to do anything other than rewrite the MBR > (you could that by backing it up with dd before any changes, then > restoring it again the same way). > > Running fixmbr should only affect the drive that Windows is on. So the > only thing lost will be the MBR, the rest of GRUB will be unchanged > (stage2 will still be where it was before). > The problem is, I think I have two stage2s. > When I've restored GRUB, I've done it this way: > [snip] > > That's just four commands. Here's a copy and paste of the process on my > computer, though I'm doing everything on drive zero, since there's only > one disc in this box. > > [tim@gonzales ~]$ su - > Password: > [root@gonzales ~]# grub > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > > GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB > lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible > completions of a device/filename.] > > grub> root (hd0,0) > root (hd0,1) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 > > grub> setup (hd0) > setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 23 sectors are embedded. > succeeded > Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+23 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"... succeeded > Done. > > grub> quit > quit > [root@gonzales ~]# > > NB: Tabbing didn't work when I tried it. But it has in the past. I'm > not sure if that's down to the terminal on Fedora 9, or something else. > > -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
