Knoppix Succesfully installed but grub installed in root
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Knoppix Succesfully installed but grub installed in root
Dear Firends,
I've Successfully installed Knoppix 5.1 from Live DVD but while installing Grub I've mistakenly installed it in to the root and Now I have WinXP Pro also, so it doesn't detect my Linu(knoppix). All the Possible Solutions which I know needs a Floopy Drive (incl. some External Boot Manager also) which I don't have. Can anyone show me How I can connect my Knoppix to WinXP Pro.
I like it with someone asks to explain fully when they do not supply enough info,
explain fully what your linux partitions are on hdc and we can give a more exact answer.
Dear Friend,
Now this is not fair I've tried to detail everything according to my knowledge hdc doesn't have any partitions. If u'd like to know something else then u can ask me again. Thank U anyhow.
and Thank U for ur Tutorial, I've seen them but not read but what I felt is they r useful in any distros, becaz the grub problem may arise in any distro.
Last edited by param85047; 11-03-2006 at 10:45 AM.
assuming hdc is a drive...it must have at least one partition
did you at least try the hd0,2 solution?
Dear Sir,
According to infor. below hdc is a HDD and has a single partition with reiserFS and I've tried the solution it says u don't have the permission or Permission denied but Really Thanks for ur kind support and I've going to format the drive which has knoppix as I got Ubuntu 6.10 DVD, Mandriva Free 2007 DVD, Fedora Core 6 DVD, Open Suse 10 DVD, So I plan to install them.
Can U please tell me, out of these distros which has KDE interface and which has gnome becaz I liked the interface of Knoppix which is probably a KDE interface.
As Usual Thanking U
Your Friend
Dear Friend,
Really Thank U it worked but after starting It doesn't allow me to select the background from FAT32 HDD hdb2 which is my DATA HDD. It says only locale files allowed. Anyway shifted over Mandriva Free 2007 and installed succesfully but it doesn't have softwares like Knoppix and doesn't mount my DVD writer, and doesn't detect hdc (80GB)can u please tell me the solution, will try Ubuntu 6.10 and FC 6 and Open Suse 10.1 ( I already have DVDs of them)idoubt that whether other Distro contains the bunch of software which Knoppix has.
Thank U for ur precious time and advice.
I went through ur tutorial and finally made the grub to MBR.
great to hear grub is working for you.....once you have knoppix and know how to put grub in to mbr or a root partition there is nothing stopping you.
oh sorry to hear about mdk.
pls consider this thread closed and post in mdk forum for any issues you have.
like all good posters include all relevant things including you have 3 drives their partition makeup...what version of mdk you are trying ....and what its current /etc/fstab file is.
great to hear grub is working for you.....once you have knoppix and know how to put grub in to mbr or a root partition there is nothing stopping you.
oh sorry to hear about mdk.
pls consider this thread closed and post in mdk forum for any issues you have.
like all good posters include all relevant things including you have 3 drives their partition makeup...what version of mdk you are trying ....and what its current /etc/fstab file is.
hint why not try a search first?
good luck
Thank U, Knoppix Has some Poblems specially relating to mounting, VCD/DVD playing.
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