<div>Oh how stupid I feel this morning !! Of course it's the extended partition !!</div>
<div>What a muppet !!!!!</div>
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<div>I'll plead extreme tiredness !!!!!</div>
<div><br>Anyway, this idea that I may have hit hde1 instead of hde is quite likely - an easy typo to do.</div>
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<div>However, reinstalling grub won't help, I don't think, as I'm getting 'invalid media error' from a dos boot for the partition. (It will get my linux back though, which is a start)</div>
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<div>Unless there is some sort of grub uninstall that will take it back off ??</div>
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<div>Anyway, must get bac<span class="gmail_quote">k to teaching work !!</span></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">Tim.C</span></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote"> On 5/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Adam Sweet</b> <<a href="mailto:drinky76@yahoo.com">drinky76@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Just realised that this is confusing, it is now<br>edited. I've removed the > symbols where I edited.<br>
<br>--- Adam Sweet <<a href="mailto:drinky76@yahoo.com">drinky76@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>> --- Tim Childe <<a href="mailto:tim.childe.lists@gmail.com">tim.childe.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> > Also, I can't find my edited fstab to see if the
<br>> > numbers have changed<br>> > - the one currently in /etc/fstab isn't the one I<br>> > put the exttra<br>> > drives in!!!!<br><br>If you mount your Ubuntu / partition /dev/hdf1 as<br>being on /mnt/hdf1 or whatever you like, the above
<br>file would be at /mnt/hdf1/etc/fstab as it tacks the<br>hard disk on to the live CDs filesystem which is<br>entirely in RAM.<br><br>> You could run grub-install again by editing<br>> /mnt/hdf1/boot/grub/menu.list and then running
<br>><br>> /mnt/hdf1/sbin/grub-install /dev/hde<br>><br>> assuming /dev/hde is the boot drive in the BIOS,<br>> under<br>> Windows that would contain C:\ D:\ and E:\ etc if I<br>> remember your explanation correctly.
<br><br>If Woo is right and he might be (Woo - yeah. Woo -<br>yeah), is there a chance that you added a 1 to the end<br>of grub-install /dev/hde ? Making it write to the<br>Windows partition instead of the mbr? If fdisk /mbr
<br>still leaves a grub thingy then it's possible.<br>Hopefully reinstalling grub as above will be solve<br>everything. Hopefully, the errant grub on /dev/hde1<br>will not have affected the Windows installation. If it<br>
has, I don't know what to do about that, other than to<br>say, get your stuff off the disk, reinstall Windows<br>and reinstall grub as above. Don't do this until there<br>are not other options.<br><br>Oh, yes I forgot, for some reason that Other Operating
<br>Systems line counts as a grub entry. I'd forgotten all<br>about that I only had to deal with it once. Sorry, but<br>you figured that out yourself and it doesn't break<br>anything if you get it wrong and then change it.
<br><br>> Getting there ;)<br><br>Ad again<br><br>--<br><br><a href="http://www.drinky.org.uk">http://www.drinky.org.uk</a><br><br><a href="http://blog.drinky.org.uk">http://blog.drinky.org.uk</a><br><br>___________________________________________________________
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