OK so I'm stupmed again !!!!!!<br>
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I've booted from Ubuntu Live (remember I couldn't make a boot disk for some reason) and I want to run grub-install<br>
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Now it's not in /boot/grub as it was before, as this is the Live version, so I mounted my linux partion and looked there.<br>
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I found my menu.lst, but still no joy with grub-install.<br>
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I've even done a search for files with grub in the name, still no joy<br>
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Am I having another "D'Oh!" moment ?????<br>
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Alternatively, can someone point me to a boot disk I can use to do the same thing !!<br>
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Thanks<br>
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and I promise that once its working I'll stop asking dumb questions -
but it's hard to learn Linux when I can't even start it up properly
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>
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Tim.C<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/6/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevanf1</b> <<a href="mailto:kevanf1@gmail.com">kevanf1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 5/6/05, Tim Childe <<a href="mailto:tim.childe.lists@gmail.com">tim.childe.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Oh how stupid I feel this morning !! Of course it's the extended partition<br>> !!<br>> What a muppet !!!!!
<br>><br>> I'll plead extreme tiredness !!!!!<br>><br>> Anyway, this idea that I may have hit hde1 instead of hde is quite likely -<br>> an easy typo to do.<br>><br>> However, reinstalling grub won't help, I don't think, as I'm getting
<br>> 'invalid media error' from a dos boot for the partition. (It will get my<br>> linux back though, which is a start)<br>><br>> Unless there is some sort of grub uninstall that will take it back off ??<br>
><br>> Anyway, must get back to teaching work !!<br>><br>> Tim.C<br>><br>><br>> On 5/6/05, Adam Sweet <<a href="mailto:drinky76@yahoo.com">drinky76@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> > 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>Right, I may be totally off the mark here but this is what I would do.<br> First, is there anything on the disk that you absolutely cannot<br>afford to lose? Is it possible to get at it via the Ubuntu Live CD?
<br>Assuming you have everything saved that is important if it were me I<br>would first of all get hold of drive manufacturers tool disk. These<br>are available from the drive makers website...usually. Next step I<br>would use the tool disk to clean up and repair the MBR. I would then
<br>look at re-installing Windows over itself.<br><br>As I say, this is last ditch what I would try. Once Win was up and<br>running again ( it was Win 98 wasn't it? Because you'd have to<br>install that first prior to any Linux install; Win2k and XP are
<br>different.) I'd then look at putting Linux back on again.<br><br>--<br>Take care.<br>Kevan Farmer<br><br>34 Hill Street<br>Cheslyn Hay<br>Staffordshire<br>WS6 7HR<br><br>_______________________________________________
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