On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 02:17:04PM +1000, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > A friend of mine had this happened to him: > > ##### starts here ##### > My PC has 3 installs of Windows XP SP2 accessed via > Windows boot manager. > When I install FC4T3 onto 10 gig of empty space on 2nd > hard drive, the install would complete successfully, > but on reboot the windows boot manager is still there, > with no sign of grub. I have installed 4 times with > same result. > ##### Ends here ##### > > It seems as if anaconda 'forgot' to write the Grub on > the MBR of the Primary master IDE hard drive. Does > this sound like a known bug? Do you need more > information? > > We are happy to raise a bug in bugzilla. A quick > search on bugzilla did not reveal a similar bug. > > Thanks > Hari > It is too early in the morning to make guarantees but here are some thoughts: 1. It is not unheard of for the running of grub-install to not replace the Windows boot-loader in the MBR. grub-install as a glitch that makes it sometimes not to work. 2, So you can remove the boot-loader in one of 2 ways; a. run the dos command: fdisk /mbr b. run the unix command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=446 count 1 3. boot linux rescue and chroot to /mnt/sysimage that should be the / partition of your linux. Then run: grub grub> root (hd1,1) <-- that assumes your /partition is on /dev/hdb1 If not change the ,1 part accordingly. grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit I am also assuming that your grub.conf has the proper entries for the Windows XP systems. -- ======================================================================= If your aim in life is nothing, you can't miss. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484