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Re: help!


From: Jochen Hoenicke
Subject: Re: help!
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:45:20 +0200 (MET DST)

On Oct 24, Ning Ma wrote:
> 
> Now I think I know what's happening.  My BIOS has a problem of recognizing
> a hard disk over 8GB.  So I have a program called "EZ-BIOS" installed at
> MBR on my hard disk.  GRUB seems to destroy that extra EZ-BIOS information
> completely and left the hard disk a corrupted partition table.  
> (LILO, however, does a smarter job).   Do you have any idea of how to
> remedy this? 

Okay, my first guess was wrong.

When you installed GRUB into the MBR you have probably overwritten
parts of your EZ-BIOS, so you have to install that again.  I hope you
haven't accidently destroyed your partition table.

I don't know EZ-BIOS myself, so I can just hope that you can recover
this easily. 

When you install grub again, make sure that you don't install it to
the MBR (hd0), install it to your boot partition (hd0,1) instead.  You
also mustn't use the GRUB shell.  Boot GRUB from a floppy!

Use

geometry (hd0)

to check if grub recognizes your partitions correctly, stop if the
results are unexpected.
Otherwise its safe to install GRUB to the /boot partition:

root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0,1)
makeactive

  Jochen



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