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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:34:28 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote |
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> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:09:07 +0200 |
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> "pat" <pat@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > Some information what I've used to remove GRUB from MBR. In windows |
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> > (don't beat me) there are tools 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' and Ive used |
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> > them. |
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> You could try 'fdisk /mbr' from windows command line. That should |
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> replace your MBR with one which simply passess boot process off to |
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> the active partition, which is -- i believe -- how windows does it. |
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> But, read on. |
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> > Probably last question: When I've tried to set the recovery partition |
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> > 'active' in fdisk, the system still boots from the GRUB and not from |
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> > the 'active' partition ... I think I've did it wrong, did I? |
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> |
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> The boot process from a hard drive looks something like |
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> Power button -> BIOS -> mbr boot -> partition boot -> OS init. |
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> chances are that GRUB is on the mbr so the recovery partition's boot |
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> record is never used. Have you considered using GRUB to boot the |
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> partition like you would a windows partition? that would look |
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> something like |
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Yes, I've booted recovery partition from the GRUB (using cfg below), but the |
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recovery process replace whole disk with one big windows partition, so the |
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GRUB "configuration" partition (partition with /boot/grub/grub.cfg) is removed |
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and it doesn't update MBR to boot from active partition ... . |
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Thanks. |
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> | # boot this partition's boot record |
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> | rootnoverify (hd0,2) # corresponds to 1st hard drive ,3rd |
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> partition. | # set to your recovery partition instead. | makeactive |
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> | chainloader +1 |
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> that, I think, will do about the same thing as 'fdisk /mbr' from |
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> windoze but avoids the hosing of GRUB, which is actually a |
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> wonderfully flexible and useful bootloader compared to the 'active partition' |
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> scheme of windoze. |
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