problem grub :P
i just reinstalled windows and it changed the boot section and got rid of grub. How can i get grub back so i can use linux? Windows didnt modify the linux hdd tho
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Try to reboot your station with a linux boot disk.
From there you should be able to access your linux partition and re-enable grub for next time |
Installing GRUB into MBR
After booting into Linux successfully, it is a good idea to make a GRUB bootdisk for similar situation in the future. This link may help you.
http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_...l#Installation Especially read the "Creating GRUB boot floppy" and "Installing GRUB natively" section. Hope this may help. |
ok does any 1 have an already made boot disk? I cant access linux to make 1
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Download one in windows and copy it to floppy using rawrite.
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where can i download 1?
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Well, I have an already made GRUB boot disk but I am not familiar with
disk manipulation so I don't know how can I send the disk to you. I created the disk using the following commands: (quoted from GRUB documentation) # cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 153+1 records in 153+1 records out Can I just copy an image from a floppy and write it into the others to make copies of it, like the way I make ISO images from CDROM? If so, what utilities should I use? And how? Btw, I've tried to mount the floppy but it requires me to specify a filesystem. But I don't know which filesystem the disk is made of. Is there a way to easily check the filesystem of a device in Linux? |
koyi
when you come to the GRUB> prompt, enter root (hd<press tab>,<press tab>) tab after hd gives you a list of disks. Select the appropriate disk where Linux is installed tab after the comma will give you a list of partitions. Select your linux boot partition. now enter configfile <press tab> here, tab will give you a list of files you should be able to type configfile grub/grub.conf boot to boot into linux. For Windows rootnoverify (hdx,n) chainloader +1 where x is the disk and n is the partition where Win resides. |
ppuru,
I am sorry but I think you misunderstood my question. I am not having problems with booting my linux. I just want to know if 1) I can make copy of a floppy disk by creating an image file from it. 2) Is there a way to determine the type of filesystem of a partition easily. Thanks for your answer anyway. At least now I know that I can <press tab> to display possible list of candidates :) |
there should be away u could copy the files from a floppy
Copy all the files, zip them and upload them to a server I think that should work |
koyi,
Try this: In linux, type cp /dev/fd0 /myimage.img at a prompt to make an image. |
bnumark,
Here's a link to a site with some disk images: ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/os/s...ent/bootdisks/ |
i see lots of files but which one of those files would work w/ grub / redhat?
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The readme describes them.
When you write one to a disk with rawrite and boot it you'll get a prompt. In the prompt type: mount root=/dev/<yourredhatpartition> ro For Red Hat you may have to add some extra parameters |
im a newbie :P i dunno wut partition its on How can i just format my hdd and reinstall everything, i might end up putting XP on the linux hdd cuz i got a new pc
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