Grub not working

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri May 6 01:02:41 UTC 2011


On 05/05/2011 05:06 PM, dave boland wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 06 May 2011 06:41 +0800, "Goh Lip" <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
...
>> If this doesn't boot, try with
>> 
>> insmod fat
>> set root=(hd0,1)
>> drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
>> chainloader +1
>> boot
> 
> No errors, but I go a blinking cursor (the under line char) in the upper
> left corner of the screen.  Would not boot Windows.

fixmbr then fixboot

But before you do, do you have a spare 40GB drive around? If so I highly
recommend copying the drive to the spare (use gparted or dd). You can
install the second drive, boot to a liveCD and then use gparted to copy.
It will copy the drive bit-for-bit.






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