MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
> One of the more experienced Linux people from one of
the LUGs I
> attend tried to Dual Boot my system with Edgy and
Windows XP as I
> think I have some speech games which won't work under
Linux.
> He brought a drive with him and tried to repartition it
and he also
> installed some extra memory for me.
> He tried to get Linux to boot after it had
repartitioned the drive
> only for some reason he couldn't get grub to install
even though he
> was doing the correct commands to get it working it
still refused to
> boot. He has had to offer to help sort it out for me in
February and
> suggested I try and get hold of a blank drive which I
could use.
> Why couldn't he get grub installed which was why it
wouldn't boot
> into Edgy? When someone else installed Edgy on my
laptop they
> installed it no problem when using the Alternative CD
although that
> wasn't a Dual Boot system unlike what was supposed to
have happened
> on my desktop?
My wild guess would be some sort of hardware/firmware/BIOS
boot record
protection, or maybe an insidious piece of antivirus
software that
bootstraps "unused" areas of the MBR/boot record.
I'd check my advanced BIOS setup screens for the word
"virus" or
"protect" first. If that doesn't turn up anything
I'd look for a clean,
spare hard drive and try installing to that on your machine
without
your other drive(s) hooked up. If all that works as it
should I'd start
looking for ways to *completely* remove whatever bit of
dross it is
that's resetting your boot sector for you after the grub
virus infects
it. 
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