Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 60391
NT reboots when launched with GRUB
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) Description of problem: When I install GRUB on the MBR of my harddisk or on a floppy to dual-boot between linux and NT4, if I choose NT at the boot, Nt starts to load, and then reboots without any message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install grub on /dev/hda or /dev/fd0 2.reboot, choose Windows NT 3. Actual Results: Windows NT starts loading, prompts me the usual (normal or VGA mode, then which hardware profile I want to load); then goes into the blue screen initialisation, prints the usual version information string, does some hard disk activity, and then the machine reboots. Expected Results: NT should finish loading, and show me the login screen Additional info: If I start linux the same way, no problem at all. If I restore the original MBR on the harddisk (I saved it with dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.sav bs=512 count=1; I restore it with dd if=mbr.sav of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1), NT loads without trouble. I haven't tried LILO yet. The hardware is a compaq notebook Evo N400c. Windows NT is on hda1, NTFS formated, it's an NT4 SP6.
This does actually work in the general case. It's possible you're hitting a strange BIOS interaction, in which case it might be fixed in the newer GRUB packages at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/. If you install the i386 package and then run '/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda` (substitute whereever you installed grub for /dev/hda) and see if that works, I'd appreciate it. Otherwise, I'll need to know a bit more information about your hardware as well as whether it works with LILO or not
Hi, I tried with the newer grub package (0.91-1.7x); and now everything works just fine. Thank you very much for your help.
Great!