[clue-tech] Help Recovering from grub-install error

[gthrelk at comcast.net]

> > Installed grub at beginning of /dev/hda, verified the contents of sector 7 
> looked as described by the google article's described layout.  Upon reboot, I 
> did get a little further with messages
> > "Booting Windows98se"
> > "rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> > "chainloader +1" 
> > but the boot then hangs.... I retried by copying count=3 rather than count=1 
> as the article suggested to me that the boot record occupied 3 sectors..... 
Same 
> result on attempted boot.  However, I can now view some of the files via 
Windows 
> startup disk but attempts to mass copy to a clean drive with utilities like 
> xcopy or PartitionMagic result in "path errors".  Looks like I"ve still 
> missed/messed something.  At least I can go after the files I MUST HAVE.
> 
> Sounds like a royal PITA. I still think you might want to try adding 
> 'makeactive' in your Windows section. It's just a hunch, and it's not 
> clear from the info you've presented why it would be necessary, but it 
> won't hurt anything. And Windows is strange sometimes.
> 
> --
> Matt Gushee
> Englewood, CO, USA

Matt, 

With all the other activity on the board, I bypassed some of the detail of my 
other attempts ... using suggestions by you, Collins, Peter, etc.  I tried makeacitve but it 
didn't seem to help.

Thanks for giving it a shot.

Gary