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I'm assuming GRUB is installed in the MBR after installing Linux and
hence points to the Linux 8.0 partition. If you have the Linux emergency
disk, you can boot with that and reinstall grub on the MBR. The GRUB
menu is in /boot/grub. While installing Mandrake, the bootsector must
have been loaded in that partition itself like you did for Linux. The
grub boot specification must point to that partition in that menu entry
for Mandrake.
Mohan
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From: ilugc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ilugc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R.Dhanagopal
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 5:42 AM
To: ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Karthick .R; Dr. P. Sriram
Subject: [ilugc] Windows XP, RH-8 and MDK-9- GRUB bootloader problem
Dear Luggies
Thanks to Dr.Sriram for proving me the latest distros of RH8 and MDK.9
CDs.
I was having Windows XP with RH 7.3 in my machine with GRUB as
bootloader.
I removed RH 7.3 and installed RH 8 with same GRUB as bootloader. Both
Windoze and
RH 8 were working fine. Partiion structure of my harddisk is
C 10 GB Windows
D 10 GB Windows
E 10 GB Windows
F 5+5 GB MDK9 & RH 8
Later I installed MDK 9 in expert mode in a 5 GB Partition. While doing
so I did not
install the GRUB boot loader in the primary partition instead created a
boot floppy.
I was having confusion where to write the boot loader so that while
booting I will get the choices of 3 Oses to choose) Now I am able to
boot into MDK 9 and Windows only through boot floppy which I had
created. In the normal mode when I start the machine the system stops
after displaying GRUB.
From MDK 9 the output for /sbin fdisk /dev/hda is as follows