can linux save my life again?

[Craig White]

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. 
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I explained this last Tuesday
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> 
> > 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.
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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.
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> 
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
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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