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Hi people!
I'm form Argentina and I'd like to fix a problem with my PC:
I bought a hard drive 3 weeks ago (Western Digital, 500 GB, SATA2).
First I installed Windows 7, then Ubuntu 11.10 and finally with a Grub Manager I put Windows 7 as default operating...
Started by pjgarde on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ubuntuforums):
Sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda
# If no errors: Ubuntu 11.10 Boot files:....
Abca613-adc9-4488-af20-7293e8e1935b set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale set lang=en_US insmod or later uses boot not root.
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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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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Essentially, you'll have to chroot into your hard drive environment using your live CD and use grub-install to reinstall....
Grub/stage1 root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit
Then reboot the system
As root edit /boot/grub/menu.lst .
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I've installed Mythbuntu on my computer but it won't boot anymore, the only thing it does is write:
Grub stage 1.5
Error 15
file not found...
When I load it with a live-cd and search, there is no file /boot/grub/ and when I log into the grub console (...
Started by Drahakar on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
I had this....
Try with the command:
find /boot/grub/stage1
to see if you can find it and use
root (hd?,?) setup/sysimage grub-install --recheck /dev/hda exit exit
Make sure you are setting the correct partition for grub s config file.
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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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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
The pre-....
Edit your /boot/grub line grub utility.
Look in yout config of grub, maybe thats it what grub does.
Hi,
maybe at boot time your grub does a drive mapping:
look here
Don't know how actual to boot correctly.
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Problem with Yast/Grub and the root device Another kernel update hit my system rendering it unbootable.
This happened also in the past and on prior versions of OpenSuSE (now I have 12.1). So far I was unable to find te root cause.
What happens:
The correct...
Started by gaston67 on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at opensuse):
This renders with hd1 (wrong device.....
Re: Problem with Yast/Grub and the root device Originally Posted by gaston67 Another kernel update eonline update of the kernel it modifies all entries to "root (hd0)" omitting the ",0".
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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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by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
But me too :) It is not clear whether he has another... .
You misunderstood him somehow.
Be a matter of choosing the USB drive, which would have GRUB installed as its bootloader, and then choosing which distro you want to boot from the GRUB menu.
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Hello, could anyone help me to boot ubuntu-9.04 from usb hard disk?
This disk contains /boot primary partition. During ubuntu installation I used "Advanced" button and asked to install GRUB to the /boot partition. Later I checked whether GRUB files are...
Started by emanemos on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Hd1 vs hd0, etc when installing grub the commands you want are:
root (hdX,Y) setup (hdX)
where hdX is probably hd0 or hd1 and Y:
root (hd0,0)
and....
Usually you end up with the disk number being off (ie .
Configuration.
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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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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
To /boot/grub/menu.lst
title Windows map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0 into grub prompt, then try this:
find /boot/grub/stage1 setup (hd0)
This will restore your MBRTry doing this, I've had this work....
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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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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Normally you will start GRUB on the MBR (master boot ....
GRUB is a program that is loaded in various stages.
Type setup (XXX it on a disk and try.
This allows GRUB to load those pieces.
You have not erased)
Type root (XXX) .
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Hi,
I want to have multiple OS installations and I have been advised that chain loading using GRUB is a good way to handle this. I have looked at tutorials on the web but I still have some questions before I can start.
I want:
Windows XP: 20 GB. For running...
Started by Kent on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
The instructions from that link boil down to:
$>grub grub>root (hd0,1) grub>setup (hd0) grup>quit
The only thing to keep in mind about this is that the GRUB to repair my GRUB....
Hard drive (/dev/hda2 or (hd0,1)).
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