-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/14 01:47, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently gotten a new workstation at university. It came with > Windows 7 and of course, I added Fedora 21 to the mix. However, each > time I log into Windows and reboot, it seems to get stuck in a kind of > boot loop at BIOS - probably can't find grub. Would anyone know what > causes this? Seems to be some Windows boot repair? > > It's quite simple to fix - boot into rescue mode from a netinstall or > dvd media and reinstall grub. However, when I do this, grub gives me a > message on the lines of: > >> Installing for i386-pc platform. >> grub2-install: warning: Sector 5 is already in use by the program ‘ZISD’; avoiding it. This software may cause boot or other problems in future. Please ask its authors not to store data in the boot track. >> > > I've looked around and ZISD seems to be some Novell program - I'm really > not sure what it is. Can I remove it? Is there a simple way to? Will my > system always loose grub after booting to Windows?? Google ZISD. Look at screen. See "GRUB and ZISD - Cool Solutions | Novell" as second entry. Click on link. https://www.novell.com/communities/coolsolutions/grub-and-zisd/ Enjoy.... - -- If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlRJfqoACgkQ4JnKjVbCBvqy2gCdGvR0hO88cWN47kOPx5lpqIEt d20AmwbSyqxdE7occXLD7p4pMcsHEm0B =OKsk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
