Cannot boot FC6 - is my boot image lost !?

[disturbed6dws]

Situation is as follows:

I had XP and Vista installed. I then proceeded to install FC6 and have successfully did it. I put FC6 boot image on a /boot partition I made

I then proceeded to copy that boot image into my windows XP so that I can simply add the entry on my boot.ini for FC6

I used the following commands:
mkdir /mnt/fat32
mount -t msdos /dev/hda2(fat32 partition for passing boot image) /mnt/fat32
dd if=/dev/hda5(my /boot partition) bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/fat32/fedora6.bin
umount /mnt/fat32
reboot....

I then copied that image while in windows xp, into C drive and added C:\fedora6.bin to my boot.ini file

.......FC6 simply cannot boot, it gives me the following error:
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart



Any idea how to fix it ? ....For some reason when I installed FC6 my Vista boot file got 'corrupted'....not so corrupted, but the entries seem to be deleted, but it boots just fine

I installed FC6 boot loaded to the first sector of the /boot partition




I would appreciate help so much !

[b_martinez]

Originally Posted by disturbed6dws

Situation is as follows:

I had XP and Vista installed. I then proceeded to install FC6 and have successfully did it. I put FC6 boot image on a /boot partition I made

I then proceeded to copy that boot image into my windows XP so that I can simply add the entry on my boot.ini for FC6

I used the following commands:
mkdir /mnt/fat32
mount -t msdos /dev/hda2(fat32 partition for passing boot image) /mnt/fat32
dd if=/dev/hda5(my /boot partition) bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/fat32/fedora6.bin
umount /mnt/fat32
reboot....

I then copied that image while in windows xp, into C drive and added C:\fedora6.bin to my boot.ini file

.......FC6 simply cannot boot, it gives me the following error:
A disk read error occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart



Any idea how to fix it ? ....For some reason when I installed FC6 my Vista boot file got 'corrupted'....not so corrupted, but the entries seem to be deleted, but it boots just fine

I installed FC6 boot loaded to the first sector of the /boot partition




I would appreciate help so much !

I needa crash'n'burn, but if you have time, will you please post the system drive geometry? In other words , which partition [drive] has what]?
i.e. ---- c:/ = win vista
--- d:/=winxp
---- e:/=FC
and also
1st hard drice has win xp, 2nd hd has win vista and 3rd hd has FC.
Back in 10 hours
Bill

[disturbed6dws]

This is the setup:

hard drive 1 (2 drives in raid 0)
- Only thing installed on it is windows xp



hard drive 2
- G:\ is windows VISTA (originally took over windows xp's boot loader...now when FC6 installed boot loader file is empty !?)

- F:\ just an empty NTFS formated partition

- J:\ Fat32 partition (that I tried using for passing fedoras boot image to windows)

- one ext3 partition which is my / root directory for fc6

- one linux swap partition for /swap

- another ext3 partition for /boot partition (during FC6 installed I put the boot image on the first sector of that partition)

- I:\ for my collection of programs

- H:\ Raid0 (1st hard drive's) backup




I really appreciate your help. FC6 is installed, I just can't get to it

[b_martinez]

If you do not want or cannot install grub to the mbr....
Read post #8 here

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=141888

hth
Bill