Screwed.

[mikeazorin]

I have two physical drives on my computer, one is 80gb and I use it for windows and my work and the other is 15gb and I use it for testing linux and stuff, and it gets erased atleast once every two months. I decided to install Darwin/x86 on my second hard drive just to see what would happen, not expecting anything. But, for one reason or another, it failed to warn me that it would format the first partition it found, being my windows C:\ drive! Now when I boot up, I get a totally unusable "grub" command line. I'm writing this from my iBook.

[mikeazorin]

my c:\ drive seems to have gone from hell and back. i think darwin installed itself on nvram (i know this is impossible)... i installed suse on hdb and with stage2 i booted up windows. so odd...

[prasys]

I prefer LILO over this...handles better compared to GRUB

[Alex]

Hmm. I did something like this recently on my quite old computer I had Windows 98 on the first partition, and Slackware Linux 10 on the second 3 partitions (one for /, one for swap and one for /home). So, I wanted to use Visual Studio .NET on it, which needs Windows 2000. So I installed Windows 2000 on it, and installation failed. Bye Bye computer

[pearpctweaker]

[quote="alex_extreme":9a048ac37f]
Hmm. I did something like this recently on my quite old computer I had Windows 98 on the first partition, and Slackware Linux 10 on the second 3 partitions (one for /, one for swap and one for /home). So, I wanted to use Visual Studio .NET on it, which needs Windows 2000. So I installed Windows 2000 on it, and installation failed. Bye Bye computer
[/quote:9a048ac37f]

You know, that can be fixed......pm me

[mikeazorin]

Well, my first physical hard drive (windows) is untouched. I installed SuSe on the second to get stage2, and I could then boot Windows fine. The thing is that I have no idea where GRUB was installed to. It still booted after I formatted my 2nd physical drive.

[prasys]

[quote="mikeazorin":2146b6fafe]
Well, my first physical hard drive (windows) is untouched. I installed SuSe on the second to get stage2, and I could then boot Windows fine. The thing is that I have no idea where GRUB was installed to. It still booted after I formatted my 2nd physical drive.
[/quote:2146b6fafe]

Its maybe on your MBR....But then , if thats in your MBR , It should boot Gurb. I think its GRUB in installed in the Partation that you installed Linux

[mikeazorin]

My computer's back to normal, my first drive was untouched. Maybe Darwin automatically installs on ext3?