GRUB Loading stage2Geom Error

[Scott Prive]

Off topic but FYI for the thread...
It's very easy to use Microsoft's boot menu with Linux (see howtos on the
net).

It is a pity none of the Linux distros offered this option, because
conservative types want Linux to "just stay on the partition". I've been
asked to build systems this way... pretty easy to NTLDR for Linux, so it's a
real shame none of the distro's offer this integration for the reason's
indicated above.

(personally, I use GRUB myself but if I ever do an NT Repair I know I'll
probably have to fix Linux also...).






----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ron.peterson at yellowbank.com>
To: "Wizard" <wizard at neonedge.com>
Cc: "Bill Horne" <bill at billhorne.homelinux.org>; "BLU Discuss List"
<discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: GRUB Loading stage2Geom Error


> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 09:32:16PM -0400, Wizard wrote:
>
> > I'm not telling you that there isn't some sort of workaround, I'm just
> > saying that it would probably be easier to just reinstall Linux. This is
an
> > issue that I have heard of numerous times since Win2k, and If there was
an
> > easy work around, I should think it wouldn't have been such a common
> > problem.
>
> I've installed Windows 2000, XP, etc. after Linux on many machines.  If
> you install multiple versions of Windows, you want to install them in
> chronological order: i.e. Win 98, then W2k, then XP, etc.  The last
> Windows installed will take care of booting the others.  I typically use
> lilo, for no reason other than that's what I started with.  I've used
> grub and like it, but I'm not as familiar w/ it.  Anyway, if you install
> Win over Linux, then just boot w/ a rescue disk, edit lilo.conf as req'd
> to point to partition where the last Windows you installed resides*, and
> use the '-r root-directory' option to chroot to wherever the rescue disk
> mounted your linux install when running 'lilo'.
>
> * e.g.:
> other=/dev/hda3
>         label=Windows
>         optional
>
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