On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 19:35 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:50:31 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > I checked and low and behold I found GRUB listed in the first block > > (mbr ??) of both disks. So I thought I should chase that down before I > > filed an inappropriate bug report. > > Then what happens if you overwrite sda's mbr with NTLDR? > > To me it is still not clear what your boot sequence looks like. > > You say this is a dual-boot machine. Unless you prefer ntldr, you > would store grub in sda. However, you say you store it in sdb. > So, how exactly do you boot? Do you really chainload sdb from sda? > Sorry Michael, I was trying to avoid re-telling a long tale of woe. Here it is; About four weeks ago my commercial boot loader (BootMagic) was blown away by the WindowsXP sp3 download and install. Fine and good: that didn't surprise me -- it was an old version of BootMagic kept out of stubbornness. I had paid for it before I started using Linux so I was going to use it. I had climbed the grub learning curve a couple of years ago, so I am fairly confident about using the grub shell or grub-install. When BootMagic was blown away, 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. The intent was to install grub on /dev/sda dual booting to sdb /boot. (BIOS loads in the natural hd0, hd1 order.) Because it was an oops (typo) 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. Which I have done. But the double splash screen still appears. To add to the confusion, I installed a new motherboard with a new and different video chip three months ago. Since I don't boot often, I could have not noticed the double splashimage for some time. This would support the changing video mode suggestion. -- 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
