From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GF4El-0006jl-5z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:30:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7L7RbnJ000096; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:27:37 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7L7P3hO024454 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:25:04 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D0A8341A for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:26:30 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Jb3ZOFlC8Sha for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:26:23 +0200 (SAST) Received: from [192.168.2.140] (unknown [192.168.2.140]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id E57EF83415 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:26:19 +0200 (SAST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Need help removing NTLDR From: Alan Mckinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1156113056.17281.40.camel@camille.espersunited.com> References: <1156113056.17281.40.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:25:04 +0200 Message-Id: <1156145104.26520.6.camel@gentoo> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 228c53ed-3244-437e-b7b9-0cd5ae4afbc6 X-Archives-Hash: bca2e83127010c65c08ea32ed5bed6a4 On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 17:30 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Awhile back my wife asked me to add Windows 98 SE to the operating > systems on her computer (Gentoo and WinXP) so that she could play old > games that we couldn't get to work in Linux with wine. She attempted to > boot into Windows XP today, but got an error message: > > NTLDR is missing > Press any key to continue > '98 believes it's the only OS in the entire world, and sets up the MBR on the boot disk to suit itself, so you need to put it back. Boot off the XP install disk, start the recovery option (not sure of the name right now, but it's obvious what it is from the menu), and run FIXBOOT from the prompt. That should put XP right. Then boot normally, and make sure grub.conf/menu.1st have the correct entries for the MS OSes. Something like: title WindowsXP root (hd0,1) chainloader +1 Adjust the root entry to suit the partitions used by each Windows OS as per normal grub rules. Everything should be back to normal. If you are unlucky enough to have run FIXMBR from XP, then you need to reinstall grub onto the MBR to get your usual boot loader back. Boot off any old LiveCD and run grub-install. After booting back into Linux you can then run the gentoo version of grub-install to restore things exactly as they were. alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list