GRUB Infestation

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:
> A cautionary tale.
>
>  I have a scratch drive in my Core 2 Duo box to play with various SMP and
>  64 bit OS's.
>  The setup is:
>  1st partition (primary): Solaris 10
>  2nd partition (primary): Win XP
>  3rd partition (primary): Debian
>  4th partition (logical): swap
>
>  I got a set of Debian 4 DVD's from Cheapbytes and installed it in the
>  3rd partition over an earlier Debian.
>  Since I use Solaris' GRUB to boot everything, I selected (hd0,2) as the
>  location to install GRUB for Debian 4.
>  The installer returned an error, and I remembered that grub-install
>  often gags on (hdx,y) and prefers the /dev/hdx syntax.
>  So, you guessed it: I told the installer to put GRUB in /dev/hda2.
>
>  That stopped Win XP from booting, and also from mounting, reporting an
>  unrecognizable file format.
>  I could not repair the damage using the Win XP install media, so I wound
>  up having to do a complete reinstall.

So the lesson here is not to use Windows?


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