Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] Please help!

[Richard R. <nt...@fl...>]

Hi,

Sorry about the slow reply, I've been swamped with work lately.

> Afher the installation completed and I rebooted the system, I had a "GRUB"
> message on the left upper screen and it freezes. What should I proceed?

Hmm, this is surprising, the RedHat install and grub are pretty good
and it should have worked without a problem.

You can undo the damage in two ways.  If you have the XP Windows CD,
then boot from it and choose the recovery console.  In there there is a
command called "fixmbr", (I don't have XP handy to check exactly).
This will overwrite grub and allow XP to boot again.

Otherwise, if you created a boot disk when you installed Linux, you
should be able to use it to start Linux.  This means you can now boot
both.

To fix grub, you need to check your config file /boot/grub/grub.conf
There's a header with things like "default..." and "timeout..." then
the booting sections.

To boot XP, you need something like:

title windows
       root (hd0,0)
       makeactive
       chainloader +1

And for Linux, something like:

title Red Hat 8.0
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hdb1

hd0 is /dev/hda
hd1 is /dev/hdb
hd0,0 is /dev/hda1
etc

When you're happy with the config file, run "grub-install /dev/hda"
WARNING, this will overwrite the MBR.

Now reboot and hopefully everything should be fine.

Cheers,
  FlatCap (Rich)
  nt...@fl...