Ok, champs; here's how it goes.
1. I installed Debian linux on my master HDD weeks ago. Now, I've attempted to run wine to get windows programs to work but to no avail. I'm an ATI user with Debian Lenny; I can't run wine! lol!
2. Well, I dusted off my trusty Vista Ultimate disk and shoved it in; installing it on my third HDD which is a small 80gb hard drive intended for program and game usage I can't get through linux.
3. What happened? Well I'll tell you.
Standard old grub can't boot the ntfs drive, says it's unmountable and gives me an error. I know it's the right partition; (hd2,0). Then tells me the Boot-manager is missing.
Well that's just dandy except I'm starting to believe that the standard grub bootloader that came with Debian can't boot windows because EasyBCD is installed.
or rather::
Debian's grub can't boot EasyBCD, but can boot the original Bootmgr.
Which isn't there, and if I installed it; I'd roll over grub.
Here's my HDD map(I'm typing this all from memory, so I might be a little wrong because I'm in Vista at the moment. I can't exactly fdisk all of this)::
- (hd0,1) - Debian 5 Lenny
-(hd1,0) - Windows Backup HDD; unimportant really.
-(hd2,0) - Windows Vista
Now I've used supergrub to get back and forth from linux to Vista but it's really annoying. I'm also not too sure which drive supergrub is rewriting boot-records to. Because when one "supposedly" is fixed; it still exists.
i.e. Grub tries to boot Windows/ fails then EasyBCD loads for no reason whatsoever.

Addendum:
WOO! I fixed it.
Neogrub, for whatever reason decided that my Debian partition was (hd2,0)...
and it's my first HDD >.>
I don't know either; but I do know it works. I'm posting from Debian right now with no supergrub disk.
What I'm thinking is that for whatever reason, neogrub identifies hard disks differently than normal grub does. So just copying and pasting my grub configuration from Debian didn't work. Randomly typing.
root (hdx,y)
root (hdx,y)
root (hdx,y)
until it came back with
FOUND - ext3
then booting from the resulting configuration.
1. I installed Debian linux on my master HDD weeks ago. Now, I've attempted to run wine to get windows programs to work but to no avail. I'm an ATI user with Debian Lenny; I can't run wine! lol!
2. Well, I dusted off my trusty Vista Ultimate disk and shoved it in; installing it on my third HDD which is a small 80gb hard drive intended for program and game usage I can't get through linux.
3. What happened? Well I'll tell you.
Standard old grub can't boot the ntfs drive, says it's unmountable and gives me an error. I know it's the right partition; (hd2,0). Then tells me the Boot-manager is missing.
Well that's just dandy except I'm starting to believe that the standard grub bootloader that came with Debian can't boot windows because EasyBCD is installed.
or rather::
Debian's grub can't boot EasyBCD, but can boot the original Bootmgr.
Which isn't there, and if I installed it; I'd roll over grub.
Here's my HDD map(I'm typing this all from memory, so I might be a little wrong because I'm in Vista at the moment. I can't exactly fdisk all of this)::
- (hd0,1) - Debian 5 Lenny
-(hd1,0) - Windows Backup HDD; unimportant really.
-(hd2,0) - Windows Vista
Now I've used supergrub to get back and forth from linux to Vista but it's really annoying. I'm also not too sure which drive supergrub is rewriting boot-records to. Because when one "supposedly" is fixed; it still exists.
i.e. Grub tries to boot Windows/ fails then EasyBCD loads for no reason whatsoever.
Addendum:
WOO! I fixed it.
Neogrub, for whatever reason decided that my Debian partition was (hd2,0)...
and it's my first HDD >.>
I don't know either; but I do know it works. I'm posting from Debian right now with no supergrub disk.
What I'm thinking is that for whatever reason, neogrub identifies hard disks differently than normal grub does. So just copying and pasting my grub configuration from Debian didn't work. Randomly typing.
root (hdx,y)
root (hdx,y)
root (hdx,y)
until it came back with
FOUND - ext3
then booting from the resulting configuration.
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