tinker
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Posted: Aug. 03 2007,12:44 |
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Boris,
When you mentioned your P200, you didn't mention how much memory it has and in your drive layout you don't show any swap space. It might have been a good idea to partition off a bit of that hdb5 for a swap partition. But that is an aside from your current problem.
It could even be a good idea to mention what kind of install, Debian style to HD or Frugal.
Given the layout you mentioned, I would think that
grub> root (hd1,4)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub quit
should set your system at booting to the grub menu you have on hdb5. It will write grub to the mbr on hda, thereby overwriting the mbr that Windows put there when installed.
You didn't mention which Windows you have on hda1 but I'm guessing 98 on that old a machine. Make sure you have a Windows startup disk before you have grub overwrite your mbr, it's easy to rewrite it from that startup disk to restore the system booting up to Windows, you could even boot from it, CD /Windows and enter win to have Windows run. If you aren't comfortable with this, don't act until you ask more questions.
In addition, no one here is looking over your shoulder, please give more detail. Give the exact command you ran and the error message received. Lucky13 gave essentially the same advice I just did, yet you only answered back with, "doesn't work" and it's hard for anyone to help with that little information.
[edited my mistake for hard drive number, I hope it didn't confuse Boris Cat]
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