On 08/18/2010 02:10 PM, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
Alarm set... 23:59:45 left...
.... and I'm back. Windows 7 is installed and my GRUB menu is restored.
Geez, that seemed to be an unnecessarily "PITA" experience. It's
probably my own fault though, as usual. LOL
When I first used the Mandriva DVD it took a couple of re-boots to get
to the rescue console. Not sure what was up with that. Once I got the
rescue console open, GRUB kept giving me an "ERROR 15 file not found"
error for my 'stage1' file.
I also tried SystemRescueCD to boot into the existing Linux install, but
it couldn't find the stage1 file either.
I did a bit of googling and saw mention of needing to reset the boot
flag since the Windows install sets its partition to be bootable. So, I
used SystemRescueCD to reset that flag on my boot partition.
Went back to the Mandriva DVD and got back to the Rescue Console.
Selected "re-install bootloader" which seemed to work except it wanted
to use hd0,2 for some odd reason. (that's my FAT32 partition for shared
Linux/Windows files.) So, I exited the GRUB console, went to the
standard rescue console, and re-entered the GRUB console so that I could
specify the root partition manually.
That finally let me boot into my original GRUB menu instead of directly
into Windows. However, the GRUB menu STILL showed the wrong root
partition for my Linux install. So, I manually edited the GRUB entries
and finally booted to Linux.
Once safely in Linux, I manually made changes to menu.list to specify
the correct Linux root partition and also added the Widows 7 entry.
So, I think this is all in good shape... finally.
But, during some of my thrashing around and trial/error, I think I
changed my video driver and may need to reinstall the nVIDIA driver. geez.
There was one thing that confused me for a while. In the GRUB console,
you're setting the "root" partition. However, what it really needs to
know is where the grub directory is. GRUB looks for /boot/grub/stage1
and /grub/stage1. So, if you have both a "/" and a "/boot" partition,
pointing GRUB to your "root" partition will fail because your
/grub/stage1 is actually in your "boot" partition. I think my finally
understanding this was the beginning of making this work. In hindsight,
I don't think the boot flag was the cause of my issues, but perhaps that
plays a part?
I hope this clarifies something for the next person who comes along.
:-) If you have questions, ask them soon while it's sort of fresh in my
mind. I'll have forgotten it by tomorrow. LOL
JMJ
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