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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Here is my situation: I have a netbook with an 8gb SSD as its first drive and a 32gb drive as its secondary drive. I was hoping to install windows xp on a 20gb partition and then share the remaining 8gb drive and 12gb partition from drive2 for my linux...
Started by Gegtik on
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I am not an expert with Grub but this is how I have done it in the past then linux on the preferred, during....
Use a Windows CD and boot to Recovery Console and run "fixboot", it will likely overwrite GRUB after xp was up and running.
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Hi
Recently I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 - the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009 .I upgraded using update manager many times.So each time I update it is adding one menu in boot screen like recovery mode.I have windows OS also.Right now in booting...
Started by BlackPanther on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
The source of the Grub bootmenu at
/boot/grub/grub.cfg
and delete the menu entries you don't need update-grub is run, whether by you or by a kernel package installation, it generates /boot/grub, run sudo update....
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