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On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 17:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating |
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> systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old |
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> games that we couldn't get to work in Linux with wine. She attempted to |
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> boot into Windows XP today, but got an error message: |
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> NTLDR is missing |
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> Press any key to continue |
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'98 believes it's the only OS in the entire world, and sets up the MBR |
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on the boot disk to suit itself, so you need to put it back. |
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Boot off the XP install disk, start the recovery option (not sure of the |
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name right now, but it's obvious what it is from the menu), and run |
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FIXBOOT from the prompt. That should put XP right. |
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Then boot normally, and make sure grub.conf/menu.1st have the correct |
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entries for the MS OSes. Something like: |
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title WindowsXP |
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root (hd0,1) |
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chainloader +1 |
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Adjust the root entry to suit the partitions used by each Windows OS as |
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per normal grub rules. Everything should be back to normal. If you are |
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unlucky enough to have run FIXMBR from XP, then you need to reinstall |
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grub onto the MBR to get your usual boot loader back. Boot off any old |
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LiveCD and run grub-install. After booting back into Linux you can then |
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run the gentoo version of grub-install to restore things exactly as they |
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were. |
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alan |
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