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gah, knoppix doesnt have grub. bugger. Ah well, i'm scouring google as we speak, i'm sure i'll turn something up. if not, i shall have to get that livecd.
The live cd doesn't need to have grub, just do what i said about chroot and any live cd, grub or no grub, will work.
I've got a habit of making installs harder than they should be :P Everything's up and working now, thanks a lot to everyone- especially linux_rulz, if you're in my part of the world sometime mate i'll buy you a beer. Now all that remains is fixing some entries in grub, which i can do no problem.
Location: The 5th dimesion. I'm using Dine (dimsional Wine) to access this site
Distribution: Ubuntu!! Hooray for Canonical!!
Posts: 25
Original Poster
Rep:
I just figured out that BIOS was booting my windows hd and grub was on the linux hd. I changed BIOS to boot from the linux hd, but when I tried to boot the default kernel it came up with the error
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
It happened with all the kernels. When I tried to boot Windows, it basically restarted the computer, and I ended up back at Grub again.
I'm going on holiday on Monday, so I won't be able to do anything from Monday till Friday. I still have today and tomorrow though.
thx
Masonmop
Edit: I tried re-installing ubuntu and trying again, but Grub came up with the same error
Location: The 5th dimesion. I'm using Dine (dimsional Wine) to access this site
Distribution: Ubuntu!! Hooray for Canonical!!
Posts: 25
Original Poster
Rep:
i found out that all you have to do to fix error 18 is reinstall ubuntu with a small /boot partition at the start. But once I finally booted ubuntu, and I put in my username and password, it did exactly what happened in the Live CD and froze on the splash screen. I had to restart the computer by turning it off at the case.
Also, Grub won't boot Windows. I don't know why, but it says
Booting 'Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition'
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
and then hangs there
Is it because windows has to think it's in (hd0,0), not (hd1,0)?
how do I fix this?
Help would be appreciated From any one on any of the above topics
It seems linux has a surprise for me at every turn
Thanks in advance
Masonmop
edit: I managed to get Windows booting from Grub. I just had to add the lines map (hd0,0) (hd1,0)
map (hd1,0) (hd0,0)
to the windows thing in Grub so it thought it was in (hd0,0) not (hd1,0). Now I have to fix the problem with Ubuntu freezing after login. I have no idea at all, so any help is greatly accepted
Location: The 5th dimesion. I'm using Dine (dimsional Wine) to access this site
Distribution: Ubuntu!! Hooray for Canonical!!
Posts: 25
Original Poster
Rep:
I'm back from my holiday in Sydney, so I'm able to accept any help.
If anyone has any idea how to fix any of the above problems, please reply and help me
Booting 'Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition'
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1
Grub is trying to boot off of your second harddrive, not your first. if Windows is on your first partition on your first harddrive, it would be (hd0,0), not (hd1,0)
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