MadDawg010
July 12th, 2010, 11:35 PM
Alright, I've just installed Windows XP on my second hard drive, which is /dev/sdb. I have an empty NTFS partition reserved for Windows 7 on the first drive, which is /dev/sda1. Ubuntu is located on /dev/sda5, and I'm trying to get Gentoo to work on /dev/sda6, and I can't figure out how to add it to Grub2, but that's a different issue I'll worry about later.
The main issue here is that when I installed XP, it, of course, rewrote the MBR, deleting Grub2. After that, I popped in the Alt-install CD and restored Grub, but when I tried to boot into Windows, I just get a black screen that reads something like "NTLDR is Missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart." Performing fixmbr allows me to boot into Windows again, but that deletes Grub, which makes Linux unbootable.
How do I restore Grub2 without breaking Windows? I'm thinking about moving NTLDR and boot.ini to the second drive, but I wanna see if there's an alternative solution.
The main issue here is that when I installed XP, it, of course, rewrote the MBR, deleting Grub2. After that, I popped in the Alt-install CD and restored Grub, but when I tried to boot into Windows, I just get a black screen that reads something like "NTLDR is Missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart." Performing fixmbr allows me to boot into Windows again, but that deletes Grub, which makes Linux unbootable.
How do I restore Grub2 without breaking Windows? I'm thinking about moving NTLDR and boot.ini to the second drive, but I wanna see if there's an alternative solution.