Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I am still dead on my corporate system, and the XP boot CD I brought
won't boot. And so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF
meeting that happens to have one in their bag of tricks...
If this is an XP system and the MBR set by XP, then you can boot with
the (any!) XP CD/DVD into the rescue console and use fixmbr command.
I know that, but so far I have not found anyone here at the IETF meeting
that has one. I mean, who carries such a CD with them to a week-long
meeting? I have a couple of options to pursue still. LIke the network
helpdesk vendor who is local...
However, you indicated earlier there is some encryption in place, I
don't know if that is already in effect at MBR level. If it is, this
method or the one mentioned in the article won't help.
My corporate tech guy told me the first step is to get a standard XP mbr
back on the system, and then he believes he can talk me through getting
the encryption working again.
Did your centos install work? Normally dual-boot systems bring up
windows with grub in the mbr and a chainloader entry to load windows.
Even if you are usb-booting centos, you should be able to set it up to
chainload the boot to the windows partition on the hard disk as an
alternate grub entry. I'm not sure how this will mesh with disk
encryption, though, but if a standard windows mbr would work, this might.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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