what is the contents of your grub.conf?
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 07:00, Didimo Grimaldo wrote: > I am in desperate need of serious help. As I mentioned I have been trying to > get my system to boot as it did. Well, things haven't worked out they way I > expected. > > 1) Having followed the advice of commands to do in the grub prompt (when > booted from the grub floppy), it now seems (actually it IS a fact) grub > somehow installed itself on the MBR!!! > > Because of this, now I am not able to boot Windows anymore. And even > though grub.conf in /boot/grub/ has an entry for WinXP it seems to be > ignored. So one way or another I can't boot my Windows XP on /dev/hda3 > > How can I make GRUB do that? > > Also, I thought GRUB had a graphical interface like the one I had in RH7.2 > but I am only presented with a rudimentary shell prompt. > > 2) LILO is still installed on my system, it has an entry for linux and > another for WinXP but even when I run "lilo" it still never gets executed on > boot. > > > So, is there a way I can go back to DOS/Windows (sorry I have no Windows > boot floppy) to do FORMAT /MBR (that is the command, isn't it? I want to > make sure I don't screw this further) ? > > Man, this boot thing is one tough unfriendly cookie! all I want is a > graphical boot screen with Linux and WinXP as options. > > Hopefully somebody can help soon, I am at a loss. > > Regards, > Emilio > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus -- Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
