Need a bit of help getting brub to run, i think
I am having a bit of a problem trying to get my linux to actually boot. I have just installed Slackware onto a drive that already had windows installed on it.. i have and 80 gig drive, that i had partitioned into two 40gig, one Windows System Partition, and one for Storage, I just deleted the Storage partition and installed Linux.. The instalation goes all the way to the end, and restarts.. the computer then reboots and goes directly into windows. i belive this is happening because the Master Boot Record of the drive is never being updated with the new boot information. how do i do this?
rogan |
did the install, give you the option of making a linux boot disk? if so, and if you made one, pop it in and it should boot you into linux. then use these commands from a shell terminal:
1. su <enter root password> 2. grub-install /dev/hda make sure you use hda and not hda1 or hda2 or etc... #2 will install grub onto your MBR. before rebooting, make sure your grub.conf file exists and looks something like this (simple windows/redhat 7.3 dual boot): Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda 1. su <enter root password> 2. kwrite /boot/grub/grub.conf in grub.conf, don't worry if you see that root= is using a different hdaXX or something. that's the partition where my linux install is residing. yours may obviously be on a different partition. |
Whenever i try to install it.. i get an error.. nothing specific, just says that it could not install and i need to load my Linux from a boot Floppy
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well, yeah. that's what i asked you first. did you make a boot floppy? you need to boot linux from the boot floppy before trying to install grub AFAIK.
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You could try boot from Linux CD and check in the installer
for help on boot options. You will probably have to add one package for the installer to make any changes to your boot option though... Else it will say no changes. |
Oh, ok..
Although i made a mistake with a password, so i am not able to log into the install... Oooops Rogan |
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