Re: XP won't boot after knoppix 3.4 hdinstall

Klaus Knopper wrote:

>On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:48:50PM -0400, Joris Huizer wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Today, I decided to do a harddisk install of knoppix; Everything went 
>>well (including repartitioning using parted (before running the install 
>>script) and qparted (during the install)
>>
>>There's one problem: the knoppix install script install in mbr but it 
>>seems XP has a problem with this -- when I choose XP in the boot (lilo?) 
>>menu, it cleans the screen and only says, "Loading Windows(hda1)" -- and 
>>nothing happens
>>
>>Other than doing a new XP install (including the backup that'd 
>>requires), is there a way to fix this?
>>    
>>
>
>You can revert to a more or less univesal Master boot record by issuing
>
>install-mbr /dev/hda
>
>from a running Knoppix as root. Unfortunately this will disable the
>possibility of dual-booting Linux comfortably, but the standard
>bootloader from install-mbr will just use the first bootable partition,
>which is, probably, your old windows XP partition, if it is still there.
>
>You can try to install the Linux bootloader to the Linux root partition
>(it's an option in the installer) instead of the MBR, and put an entry
>for it in the bootmenu of Windows. For the latter, I cannot be of much
>help, since I have no idea how the Windows boot loader works. But
>Windows users are telling me it works fine that way, if you figure out
>how to configure it in Windows.
>
>Regards
>-Klaus Knopper
>
>  
>
I don't know why -- it didn't work.
I gave that command and when I now boot the computer it does the usual 
hardware startup stuff, and then says,

CDROM:
MBR

(as if it first "thinks" it should read a cdrom, maybe that's standard 
anyway) but then it just says MBR, and nothing happens.

Can you tell me how to solve this?
Thanks for your help I really appreciate it!

Joris

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