2 hard disks

norman norman at littletank.org
Fri Nov 30 08:45:30 UTC 2007


> 
> Norman, one other thing to check if your windows drive doesn't boot from
> the grub menu: for some drives I've noticed that the boot flag gets
> turned off for some reason. So, use gparted to check to make sure the
> boot flag is turned on for that windows drive. Drove me nuts last
> weekend when I couldn't get a windows drive to boot - I finally checked
> the boot flag in gparted, noticed it was turned off, reset it, and it
> popped right in.

That sounds a good idea. However, please realise that you are dealing
with a rather elderly gent with very little idea or knowledge of Linux.
Please, how do I carry out the check you mentioned and, the correction,
if needed?

Norman





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