[TriLUG] Laptop installation question

[William Sutton]

You shouldn't.  Windows probably thought that the installation was 
corrupted because the disk partition sizes/layout didn't match what it 
remembered them to be (not because of the boot manager).  Reinstalling 
Windows....uh..."pursuaded" Windows that everything was OK...at the 
expense of your boot loader (grub/lilo/system commander/whatever) since 
Windows (in typical Windows fashion) assumes that it's the only game in 
town.

The suggestion to reinstall your boot loader should fix the Linux boot 
problem and (so long as you created an entry in your boot configuration 
for Windows) leave Windows happily humming along.

-- 
William Sutton


On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Christopher Blackmon wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 12:59:02PM -0800,
> > Christopher Blackmon wrote:
> > > After the system restore I notice that the
> > > linux partitions are still there.. there is just
> > no
> > > boot manager any more.
> > 
> > You'll need to boot off the FC disc into rescue
> > mode.  Have it mount the
> > target installation it finds.  Then:
> > 
> > chroot /mnt/sysimage
> > grub-install '(hd0)'
> > exit
> > 
> > It may mount it somewhere other than /mnt/sysimage. 
> > The rescue startup will
> > tell you.
> > 
> > Reboot and you should be all set.
> > 
> 
> If I do this, won't I be at the same point I started
> with?  With the machine thinking that the hard drive
> has been corrupted and wanting to do a restore?
> 
> thanks,
> Christopher.
> 
> 
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