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I am quite new to Linux administration so I am having trouble understanding yum update and grub boot list.
I recently did a yum update on an old CentOS machine. Everything is good except there is multiple boot options appear in grub boot list and I wonder...
Started by Jeffrey on
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I think yum takes boot the old kernel if you....
Some_hostname Sun Jan 03 19:17:58 /boot root > ls -1t grub <If you install a new kernel through yum it will appear in your boot list.
As it's down the bottom of the screen.
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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.
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I normally boot into Linux using grub so have linux as the first hard drive in my machine. I have Windows installed onto a second hard drive and am trying to get grub to boot it.
The grub config file contains
title Windows rootnoverify (hd1,1) chainloader...
Started by David Dibben on
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Of the Windows entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst :
map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0)
This is onlyMy reading of the hd(1,1) means 2nd drive, 2nd partition- is that where it is?
The Windows boot loader assumes it's the first disk in the ....
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I am expanding my rescue usb flash disk. The USB's partition is bootable, and I have installed GRUB to the MBR of the jump drive. It works pretty well - I can boot Freedos and run some utilities,and I can boot PING .
I would like to add the Ubuntu 9.1...
Started by EricJLN on
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Update: Based on your entry, I found the article "Grub chainloads syslinux and back" , which basically says "patch grub":
Chainloading syslinux from GRUB seems not to be possible without a patch mentions a similar patch was posted....
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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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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...
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Edit your /boot/grub line grub....
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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I recovered my windows and in the process I lost the grub for ubuntu 9 . Now i want to change NTLDR so that i can dual boot. Can anyone help?
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
If you want to use NTLDR to boot, with Ubuntu as an option in the list, follow this guide: How to dual-boot Windows NT/....
If you want to restore GRUB so you can boot Windows .
I'm not sure what exactly you're proposing to do.
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Hi,
I had Vista installed on a partition and I installed Ubuntu on the remaining free space.
Now when I boot the computer the OS selection screen is GRUB. Ive used EasyBCD to configure my Vista boot loader. How do I get the computer to use the Vista boot...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
For you:
How to use Windows Vista’s Boot Manager to boot Linux.
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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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Usually you end up ....
For example, if yourThis happens when the grub binary is executed and it can't find the directory containing its configuration.
Will check for the right files in /grub or /boot/grub (on that partition).
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Hi everyone.. a long story here, but basically I had windows xp on sda1 aka (hd0,0) and ubuntu on sdb5 aka (hd1,4) and they were booting fine. Something messed up with ubuntu, I reinstalled, and tried to fix grub.. in the course of it all I believe I ...
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If you have an XP boot disk or equivalent you may try "fdisk /mbr"
Wouldn't sdb3 be hd1,2 since there....
The built-in grub GRUB to the MBR.
Verify that you can boot into Windows, then restore GRUB as normal.
Process.
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