GRUB Infestation

[C M Reinehr]

Ready, Fire, Aim! ;-)

On Monday 24 March 2008 11:32, Leon Goldstein 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.

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