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January 20th, 2002, 01:04 AM
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| | Uncommon Man
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It went through and auto installed it on my initial installation and everything was peachy, but then I reinstalled windows. How do I reinstall GRUB?
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January 20th, 2002, 01:14 AM
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| | Canuck
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January 20th, 2002, 01:34 AM
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The linux multi boot menu. Like microsoft's for multi OS systems but better. | |
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January 20th, 2002, 01:35 AM
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Grub is a boot loader for Linux. It's very similar to LILO.
Jeff
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January 20th, 2002, 01:38 AM
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Can you get back into linux? Or just windows? | |
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January 20th, 2002, 01:39 AM
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| | Canuck
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Try removing boot.ini... BUT make a backup and make sure you have your windows startup disks just in case it won't work without it... | |
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January 20th, 2002, 02:09 AM
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hello,
boot from whatever distro into emergency mode (if you di not make a boot floppy, if you ahve a boot floppy use that) then when in and then do a grub-install - you may need to specify partions to mount, but you should be able to use the /boot/grub/grub.conf file.
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January 20th, 2002, 02:07 PM
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| | Uncommon Man
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Thanks pbharris...
That was a piece of cake... just wasn't sure what to do exactly.
grub-install /dev/hda1
I can dig it
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January 20th, 2002, 06:58 PM
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cool! i personally have yet to rescue anything with grub - but i was sure to read the instructions! | |
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January 23rd, 2002, 05:57 PM
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| | Uncommon Man
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Oops. Mabye it wasn't the piece of cake that I thought it was. I just failed to try Windows until now. I can see and mount my primary master drive (c in linux just fine and boot to Linux, but I can't boot to the "DOS" option in GRUB and if I try to use a boot disk and switch to the c: drive it says it's not formatted. But I can still see it and its data fine in Linux???
Is it because the MBR is screwed? How do you fix this without reformatting the drive and losing all the info there?
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