seanlano
April 16th, 2009, 01:41 AM
Hi all!
Until recently I was triple-booting Intrepid, Jaunty beta, and Windows XP. I installed GRUB from Jaunty to the MBR, so it had control. This worked fine, but Jaunty seemed incredibly unstable on my Thinkpad laptop, so I decided to scrap it. I knew I needed to give Intrepid back the GRUB control, so I looked up how to do it, and I ran:
sudo grub-install hd0,0 which wasn't quite what I wanted to do, as it tried to install GRUB to my Windows partition instead of the MBR. I didn't realise the problem immediately, and after a re-boot I found that Jaunty still had GRUB control. I then realised that hd0,0 was not the correct destination, and from Intrepid I then ran
sudo grub-install hd0 which has worked fine. I then removed the Jaunty partition, and Intrepid works fine.
But this is my problem: I cannot boot Windows! Whenever I select it from the GRUB menu, the screen goes blank for a second, then returns to the GRUB boot list. From Intrepid, I cannot mount the NTFS Windows partition, and the Intrepid Live-CD cannot mount it either. What have I done? Has GRUB eaten my Windows partition? Can I uninstall GRUB from hd0,0? Can anything be done? (Obviously I would like to avoid a Windows re-install, at least I would need to copy the Documents and Settings from each user, which I cannot do). Please, any ideas? This is the worst I have ever screwed up the computer, because it affects Windows, which is what the rest of the family use. :( Can I force an NTFS mount, then run fsck?
Until recently I was triple-booting Intrepid, Jaunty beta, and Windows XP. I installed GRUB from Jaunty to the MBR, so it had control. This worked fine, but Jaunty seemed incredibly unstable on my Thinkpad laptop, so I decided to scrap it. I knew I needed to give Intrepid back the GRUB control, so I looked up how to do it, and I ran:
sudo grub-install hd0,0 which wasn't quite what I wanted to do, as it tried to install GRUB to my Windows partition instead of the MBR. I didn't realise the problem immediately, and after a re-boot I found that Jaunty still had GRUB control. I then realised that hd0,0 was not the correct destination, and from Intrepid I then ran
sudo grub-install hd0 which has worked fine. I then removed the Jaunty partition, and Intrepid works fine.
But this is my problem: I cannot boot Windows! Whenever I select it from the GRUB menu, the screen goes blank for a second, then returns to the GRUB boot list. From Intrepid, I cannot mount the NTFS Windows partition, and the Intrepid Live-CD cannot mount it either. What have I done? Has GRUB eaten my Windows partition? Can I uninstall GRUB from hd0,0? Can anything be done? (Obviously I would like to avoid a Windows re-install, at least I would need to copy the Documents and Settings from each user, which I cannot do). Please, any ideas? This is the worst I have ever screwed up the computer, because it affects Windows, which is what the rest of the family use. :( Can I force an NTFS mount, then run fsck?