GRUB Loading stage2Geom Error

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Grub uses the boot sector (just like lilo) for its first-stage loader.
Generally you put the grub 1st-stage in the MBR and then it loads the
second stage, which reads the grub.conf file directly.  The problem
is that windows can screw that up.

Re-installing grub might help.  But generally I always recommend
that if you plan to build a dual/multi-boot machine with windows,
you want to install all your windows OSes FIRST.

-derek

Bill Horne <bill at billhorne.homelinux.org> writes:

> On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 06:09:23PM -0400, Wizard wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bill Horne
> > > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 3:26 PM
> > >
> 
> > > I'm trying to restore multiple boot to a Dell PowerEdge 600SC
> > > after installing W2K Server.
> 
> > > I created a GRUB Boot disk as per the GRUB info pages, but when I
> > > try to boot with it, I get the error "GRUB loading stage2Geom
> > > Error".
> 
> > If you installed Win2k AFTER Linux, then you'll have to reinstall
> > Linux. For some reason (I can't remember why), Win2k hijacks the
> > boot loader from Linux and won't let Linux boot.  
> > Grant M.
> 
> I guess I'm confused: GRUB isn't related to Windows or the hard disk's
> boot sector as far as booting goes: it boots from floppy, and that's 
> when I get the problem. 
> 
> I can boot into Linux with a boot disk, and I'm confident I could use
> LILO to rewrite the boot sector, having done it after installing
> Win98, but I'd like to get GRUB going instead.
> 
> In other words, I'm not even able to start GRUB in order to rewrite 
> the boot sector: whether M$ "hijacks" it somehow is yet to be 
> discovered.
> 
> Bill
> 
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