Re: [Bug-grub] I am very stupid: 'grub-install hda1'

[Jason Thomas]

build win98 boot disk which contains sys
boot with it.
run 'sys c:'
reboot

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:06:53PM -0700, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:
> 
> I did something really stupid and would like the advice of this list and
> its expertise.
> 
> The stupidity:
> I installed an inferior bootloader and in the process of restoring GRUB, I
> issued both 'grub-install hda' AND 'grub-install hda1'.  hda1 is my
> windows 98 SE partition!
> 
> The result:
> Now, I can get GRUB to load linux fine but the 'grub-install hda1' command
> wrote GRUB to my windows partition. Now, when I select my windows
> partition from the GRUB menu, it says 'GRUB loading stage2...' for a
> SECOND time (as it already displayed that right before the GRUB menu as
> it should) and then it hangs. So My windows partition is unbootable.
> 
> My questions:
> -Does anyone think it is possible to recover from this mistake?
> -What did 'grub-install hda1' do to my windows partition?
> -Did it write over the files necessary to boot windows?
> -I can still mount my windows partition so the data is there... just
> unbootable.
> -Is it possible to add a feature to grub-install that does 'fdisk -l
> <drive>' and asks for confirmation if it thinks that the user is an idiot
> like me? (if grub-install had said, "you are about to install GRUB on the
> first partition of hda which seems to be a FAT32 filesystem... are you
> sure you want to do this?" I would have declined.)
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Joe
> 
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