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I had Windows XP and Ubuntu both installed. I could easily boot into either until Windows "fixed" the bootloader so that it now only boots into Windows.
I guess there is no way to prevent Windows from doing this. So instead when it happens how do I quickly...
Started by Rob Kam on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
You can find GRUB's menu at /boot/grub/menu.lst on Ubuntu since the symlink....
From this earlier answer.
Grub/stage1 root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit
Then reboot the system
As root edit /boot/grub/menu.lst your pick.
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I have a dual-boot system, Ubuntu and Windows XP.
Ubuntu has been freezing occasionally. I've just been turning the computer off and back on when that happens.
The last time it happened, I turned the computer back on, it went to the screen where you select...
Started by JoshMaurice on
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Ubuntu\disks\boot on your windows machine? Also, add the contents of c:\ubuntu\disks\boot\grub\menu.lston the grub command line does typing "linux 1" work?
I'm assuming you used Wubi to install it (if you booted from....
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Hi, we have a temporary requirement to have several small PCs running ubuntu 9.10 running 24/7 in an environment where the mains power isn't very reliable. The machines are in a remote location and hard to get to.
The problem I'm getting is when the power...
Started by Simon H on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
This may take a long
under debian with grub-legacy you can use grub-reboot for this
# grub-reboot 2 Searching for GRUB time.....
Found: /boot/grub Probing devices to guess BIOS drives.
Installation directory ...
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I'm looking at a system with Debian/Lenny on a couple of old IDE PATA drives (several RAID-1 partitions including /boot) and a relatively recently added SATA drive. The system works fine but I've been poking around the GRUB setup in anticipation of upgrading...
Started by timday on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Edit your /boot/grubHi,
maybe at boot time your grub does a drive mapping:
look here
Don't know how actual line grub....
Look in yout config of grub, maybe thats it what grub does.
To boot correctly.
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Hello,
I had installed reinstalled windows and ubuntu various times.
Now Everything is set and I want to edit grub to set windows 7 as my default os
when I run this command
gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
I get an error that No such file or Directory...
Started by Shishant on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
then edit the lineYou've installed ....
grub/grub.env and edit this one, for changing the boot order, reorder the scripts in /etc/grub.d be dangerous for me to speculate on what to do next.
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My notebook computer came with Vista and I installed Ubuntu on 2 partitions and kubuntu on another partition.
After a while, I wanted to delete one of the Ubuntu partition, so I did it in Vista's Disk Management Tool.
But after that, the computer won'...
Started by Jian Lin on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
You'll get a response not show....
Type find /boot/grub/stage1 .
Type grub which makes a GRUB prompt appear.
GRUB on the MBR (master boot record) where there is the "pointer" to where the rest of GRUB in that shall.
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Possible Duplicate:
Make grub keep its default boot under kernel updates
Hi, I've got dual boot system - Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7.
Whenever the GRUB loaded, the menu showed lots of options, for example, the past kernels, memory tests, and windows 7.
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Started by Dean on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Edit: Only nowThe answer....
To restore an entry, simply remove the #.
Edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst as root with your entries you want hidden from the boot menu.
From this guide to Grub 2 at the Ubuntu Forums .
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I have a laptop hard drive in an external enclosure which I use as a large pendrive. For an added twist, I have installed Linux on it, so I can boot any machine with my distribution of choice (e.g. for data recovery or repairing a b0rked system or just...
Started by skolima on
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But me too that is configured to boot from the BIOS, from there he want's to setup the grub configuration to haveI could ....
You misunderstood him somehow.
And then choosing which distro you want to boot from the GRUB menu.
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Hi
I have the following scenario:
I had a dual boot option on my laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium and Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition 5.0. In order to install Ubuntu on the partition having RHEL, I deleted that partition using windows disk management...
Started by Andriyev on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Try doing this, I've had this work on a dual boot with windows where grub messed up the master to /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Windows map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1
then after that is in do....
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I have a Mac Mini with Ubuntu Fiesty on it - but need to re-Mac it. My problem is that I can get it to recognise the install DVD. I've tried using the memdisk.bin / sbootmgr.dsk combo but can't seem to get it to work. Any ideas?
Edit: if it helps, running...
Started by Richard Dyce on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
"Okay I have new.
Give it a whirl and let us know.
EDIT : User had a bigger problem - his EFI is for some reason corrupted the option to boot using the OS X install DVD.
There's no need to even get into GRUB.
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