[TriLUG] Laptop installation question

[Christopher Blackmon]

Bzzt... wrong.  *sigh*

Now I have to do the system restore again.

guess I'll move on to suggestion number 2.

Christopher.


--- William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:

> 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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