[ale] Hosed WLAN and Boot Partition

[Marc Ferguson]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 04/26/2010 08:59 AM, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I'm not sure that this is the correct forum for this, but I thought I'd
> > give it a shot.  I am dual-booted with Windows Vista Home Premium and
> > Fedora 12 x86_64. I upgraded my windows partition to Windows 7 and, of
> > course, it hijacked the boot partition and made it the primary.  I
> > totally forgot it did that kind of stuff. So; Loaded GParted via a CD I
> > made a while ago and made my boot partition the primary... or so I
> thought.
> >
> > When I rebooted, it said "no operating system could be found".  How do I
> > edit my grub or fix my mbr?
> >
> > On another note, I ran uLoader to "activate" my Windows 7.  After a
> > reboot my WLAN isn't working anymore. When I load Windows there's no
> > device driver. I even downloaded a couple different versions of the
> > driver and it still won't take it. I ended up formatting the partition
> > and reinstalling Windows 7 three times and I'm back to Windows Vista and
> > STILL, no device driver for my WLAN.  I booted into Fedora on the LiveCD
> > (via USB) and the WLAN isn't active in that instance either.
> >
> > So; my last guess is uLoader loaded a virus or messed with my BIOS in
> > some way.  Does that sound like the correct assumption? If so, can a
> > simple flashing-of-the-bios (which I've never done before) fix this
> > issue or should I just get a PCI WLAN card? Thanks for any clarification.
> >
> > Here's a rough draft of my partitions.
> >
> > - sda1 (labeled "data") - 146GB
> > - sda2 (labeled "windows") - 47 GB
> > - sda3, ext3 of 200MB << this "should" be my boot partition (I'm
> > uncertain though)
> > - sda4, extended
> > - sda5, lvm of 38 GB << this partition is where Fedora lives
> >
> > So; in GParted I saw that sda2 was active and marked as boot. I then
> > made sda3 boot, but no success after rebooting.
> >
> > --
> > Marc Ferguson
> >
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> Marc,
> I believe that you have to reinstall GRUB as that contains software that
> partially occupies the MBR. I believe it's the stage1.5 file that gets
> installed there. Then to boot Win7 you have to put in menu.lst something
> along the line of loader+1. Just Google dual boot M$ & Linux with GRUB
> to get the exact setup for menu.lst. Also the Fedora part would be hd0,2
> as it's on the 1st drive 3rd partition. Again, searching would give you
> the specifics of menu.lst but you will need to reinstall GRUB. Also if
> you're running F12 the file you want is grub.conf which is linked to
> menu.lst. Hope that helps...
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Indeed it does help. Thanks fellas.  I guess no one wants to touch that
"uloader" thing with a 10-foot pole, eh!? :D Understandable.

-- 
Marc Ferguson

Registered Linux User #410978
www.fergytech.com | www.digitalalias.net

"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"
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