grub configure
i am absolutely new to linux . i have been inspired by someone who is a great suporter of open source. anyways i have win xp and fedora core 2 .
my win xp is corrupt so ineed to reinstall it by formatting my c: drive. will the grub go with it ? how can i reconfigure the grub? |
hi
if during windows Installtion ,it writes to ur MBR then ur GRUB will surely be gone to recover it boot into rescue mode(type "linux rescue" at while booting from 1 st CD) chroot to ur linux partition(for redhat based systems u need to run "chroot /mnt/sysimage" after u boot in rescue mode) and grub-install /dev/hda regards |
is fc2 cds are required or i can do with any version of red hat
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hi there
with fedora Cds ,it will be more easy or u can do wth any linux there u need to mount ur root partiton ,then "chroot" to that partition so better if u can get Fedora Cds regards |
using redhat 9.0 instead of fc2 following output came after linux rescue
and after fdisk -l i got hdd4 as my linux partition i wrote following mount /dev/hdd4 /tmp chroot /tmp grub-install /dev/hdd4 following error came sh-2.05b# grub-install /dev/hdd4 sh: child setpgid (105 to 105) : no such process the file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly |
As Masand stated the correct command is
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grub-install /dev/hda hth Mark |
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regards |
as u said my windows must be on 1st patition
its not so i ahve two version of windows xp one on c: drive and one on e: drive and iam not using grub/hda coz my hdd is secondary slave and as far to my knowledge for srcondary slave hdd4 is used plz clarify |
u need to use
grub-intall /dev/hdd not hdd4 since u want to install grub on MBR and not on UR root partition I guess??? regards |
i gave up installing grub and iam going for fc3. would it be better if i switch to lilo from grub
how can i make that switch |
hi there
wheh ur installing Linux u have an option of installing any one of the two and BTW grub is newer then lilo and lilo may be depriciated in future versions,might have been depricited in FC3 regards |
my 2nd installation cd of fc3 is corrupt
so ineed to procure new cd . till then iam cut of from the world of linux its a shame |
shame for who??
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NOW NEW PROB;EM WITH GRUB
WHEN I INSTALL FC 2 AND I GIVE LOCATION OF MY XP PARTITION FOR GRUB EVERYTHING RUNS OK . BUT WHEN SYSTEM STARTS IT SHOWS TWO ENTRIES ONE OF FEDORA AND OTHER OF WIN XP WHEN I CLICK ON WIN XP SOME ERROR COMES WHICH SAYS DISK NOT FOUND PRESS ENTER TO REBOOT AND THEN NOTHING HAA[ENS WHATS THIS |
post ur grub.conf here
and the O/P of fdisk -l regards |
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