can linux save my life again?

[Josh Coffman]

--- Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 22:13 -0700, Josh Coffman
> wrote:
> > 
> > --- Jason Spatafore <jason at spatafore.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > >>  I guess about the best news I could hear now
> is
> > > that
> > > >>  the hal.dll problem is a simple fix in
> > > grub.conf; and
> > > >>  that the fc5 repair disk will re-install
> grub
> > > for me.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 1. Boot off your Windows CD and enter recovery
> > > console mode.
> > > 2. Use the following commands: fixboot <enter>
> > > fixmbr <enter>
> > 
> > This is interesting... I didn't know about
> fixboot.
> > that may get me going in the right direction. Part
> of
> > the proble is that the bootsecto is on the
> secondary
> > drive while the system is on the primary. 
> ----
> I explained this last Tuesday
> ----
> > 
> > > 3. Boot back into your windows cd and start
> setup.
> > > At your first chance to "repair" windows, skip
> it
> > > and act like you're doing a new installation.
> > > Windows will now search for other windows
> > > installations...you can now select to REPAIR the
> > > previous installation.
> > > 4. Go through that repair process and all should
> be
> > > booting fine. (If you did this the first time
> > > through, your applications and settings should
> have
> > > been fine. This repair option will only delete
> the
> > > windows files and then re-copy them from the
> cdrom.)
> > 
> > Yeah, I know about the system repair... It just
> didn't
> > give me that option. I was both annoyed and
> surprised
> > by this.
> ----
> I have the impression that this is no longer an
> option on WinXP SP2 CD's
> - I also noticed that wasn't an option on one of
> those.
> ----
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Sincerely,
> > > 
> > > Jason Spatafore
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > So what are the odds that hal.dll will get
> corrupted
> > again if I try again?
> > 
> > Also, I tried booting GParted live cd to see if I
> > could move some things around but it didn't see
> the
> > SATA drive. Well, not automagically anyway.
> ----
> I think that doing it GUI way isn't gonna be all
> that effective.
> 
> I thought that you might be able to work things
> through using the dd
> commands that I outlined.

Craig, I do appreciate it. I was being a little lazy
trying to use a GUI to fix the problem. Now a I'm a
little gun shy and will have to wait a few weeks until
I have time to mess around in case I break something
again.

> 
> Craig
> 
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