Hi,
A few days ago I posted some questions regarding the problem I had. It
was that while trying to install GRUB (a horrible, dangerous beast) it
screwed up the boot sector of
my Windows XP partition.
Well, none of the suggestions, neither from here or the microsoft newsgroup,
not even
internal microsoft contacts where acceptable.
I did finally come up with a fixup. At least for FAT32 systems there is a
backup copy of the bootsector of the partition (I'm NOT talking about the
MBR!!!) in sector #6. All I had to do was use "dd" under linux to copy the
backup boot sector into Sector #0 and that got my WinXP booting again:
dd if=/dev/hda3 of=bootsect-backup.bin bs=512 count=1 skip=6
dd if=bootsect-backup.bin of=/dev/hda3 bs=512 count=1
So basically copy sector #6 into sector #0.
Now I do have a few questions:
1) Is Linux now capable of reliably reading *and* writing NTFS partitions? I
want
to switch my WinXP from FAT32 to NTFS while being able to access it from
Linux in case evil comes around yet again.
2) How do I mount an USB CDRewriter?
3) I have LILO currently on the MBR. How do I
- Fix the MBR so that it becomes "virgin" (without LILO). FDISK
/MBR didn't do it
- I read that it is NOT advisable to install GRUB on the MBR, is
that right?
- Anybody has a "Grub for dummies" guide to installing GRUB on a
Linux
root partition (not on MBR) ? I really don't want to screw up my
system
again so I need a proven procedure. My root is /dev/hda8 my
/boot in /dev/hda5
Regards,
Emilio
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