<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com">skotchman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 04/26/2010 08:59 AM, Marc Ferguson wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hey folks,<br>
><br>
> I'm not sure that this is the correct forum for this, but I thought I'd<br>
> give it a shot. I am dual-booted with Windows Vista Home Premium and<br>
> Fedora 12 x86_64. I upgraded my windows partition to Windows 7 and, of<br>
> course, it hijacked the boot partition and made it the primary. I<br>
> totally forgot it did that kind of stuff. So; Loaded GParted via a CD I<br>
> made a while ago and made my boot partition the primary... or so I thought.<br>
><br>
> When I rebooted, it said "no operating system could be found". How do I<br>
> edit my grub or fix my mbr?<br>
><br>
> On another note, I ran uLoader to "activate" my Windows 7. After a<br>
> reboot my WLAN isn't working anymore. When I load Windows there's no<br>
> device driver. I even downloaded a couple different versions of the<br>
> driver and it still won't take it. I ended up formatting the partition<br>
> and reinstalling Windows 7 three times and I'm back to Windows Vista and<br>
> STILL, no device driver for my WLAN. I booted into Fedora on the LiveCD<br>
> (via USB) and the WLAN isn't active in that instance either.<br>
><br>
> So; my last guess is uLoader loaded a virus or messed with my BIOS in<br>
> some way. Does that sound like the correct assumption? If so, can a<br>
> simple flashing-of-the-bios (which I've never done before) fix this<br>
> issue or should I just get a PCI WLAN card? Thanks for any clarification.<br>
><br>
> Here's a rough draft of my partitions.<br>
><br>
> - sda1 (labeled "data") - 146GB<br>
> - sda2 (labeled "windows") - 47 GB<br>
> - sda3, ext3 of 200MB << this "should" be my boot partition (I'm<br>
> uncertain though)<br>
> - sda4, extended<br>
> - sda5, lvm of 38 GB << this partition is where Fedora lives<br>
><br>
> So; in GParted I saw that sda2 was active and marked as boot. I then<br>
> made sda3 boot, but no success after rebooting.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Marc Ferguson<br>
><br>
> Registered Linux User #410978<br>
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</div>Marc,<br>
I believe that you have to reinstall GRUB as that contains software that<br>
partially occupies the MBR. I believe it's the stage1.5 file that gets<br>
installed there. Then to boot Win7 you have to put in menu.lst something<br>
along the line of loader+1. Just Google dual boot M$ & Linux with GRUB<br>
to get the exact setup for menu.lst. Also the Fedora part would be hd0,2<br>
as it's on the 1st drive 3rd partition. Again, searching would give you<br>
the specifics of menu.lst but you will need to reinstall GRUB. Also if<br>
you're running F12 the file you want is grub.conf which is linked to<br>
menu.lst. Hope that helps...<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Indeed it does help. Thanks fellas. I guess no one wants to touch that "uloader" thing with a 10-foot pole, eh!? :D Understandable.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Marc Ferguson<br>
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