grub

Hello guys, My pastime is simply installing and uninstalling various distros..So far I have sucess rate of 9 to 10 . Now I have downloaded VectorLinux live cd after trying it I want to install in mt harddisk ( 80 GB + 40 GB) At present I have 9 linux distros with Windows XP spreading in...

I am running Open Suse 10.2 ,installed after installing MS Vista (ultimate) but i can't see boot entry of Vista in GRUB ? How to add that in my case Vista is on primary partion hda5 . TIA

I just installed Vista Home Basic. It removed my existing GRUB. I tried to restore it but is says that no kernel module was found and that no change will be made to existing boot loader configuration. I have XP, 2000 and now Vista. I used Ubuntu Live CD to figure out that my partition was hda8...

I have windows xp on the c: (primary partition) and linux /boot also in the separate primary partition. Now, I can't boot windows. but, in grub, there are both the options for redhat as well as windows howevwe. If I either repair or install xp now, grub will stop working. Please help me what to...

Friends, i faced a problem while installing Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. I first created a ext3 partition of 5 GB for the root and a 500 MB partition for the Swap. I booted from the Ubuntu CD and installed the OS on these partitions. The Istallation went by smoothly. After completion I rebboted the system...

Hi I installed opensuse 10.2 from the DVD provided with linux for you magazine. Now whenever I restart from windows/suse and the GRUB loads, then the splash screen is a gif file, animated. With penguines mooving all around. It's brilliant. But if I shut windows/suse down and press power...

:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::confused: i installed mandriva 2006. but set the bootloader to firsr sector of hard disk and not in the mbr. now the mandriva grub bootloader is not showing. win xp is not able to recognize the installation and only "Win XP" option...

I,ve dual boot xp & FC5. 2day i started my pc start xp no dual boot option.I am unable run FC5). i thin Grub is currpted.What could be the solution.? plzz help me brother. i'm waiting 4 ur reply.:smile:

reinstalled windows and then tried to restore grub, my root partition is /dev/hdb4 first i tried the Kubuntu Edgy alternate install cd from which i had installed the distro. Entered the rescue mode and tried to install the grub on mbr (/dev/hdb), after 50% i got an error, "grub-install...

hi i had installed elxLinux on my comp on one partition of 10GB, the other 30GB was used by WinXP. Got bugged and directly deleted the drive using Administrative tools and formated it back to NTFS from EXT2. The next time i started my comp, i jst wouldn't boot into Windows XP. I just get the...

i tried to triple boot with fedora, ubuntu and windows. windows and fedora boot but ubuntu returns with GRUB error 18. what is grub error 18 and how can it be corrected. thnx

The Master Boot Record is erased after a Windows reinstall on a dual-boot. this is the method to recover GRUB in ubuntu and fedora core... Fedora Core Boot with a live cd that has grub. Issue these: logon as root/type su in the terminal/konsole (? being where your controlling distro...

I have formatted my c: as my XP and Me installations were irrecoverable. But my FC4 is safe. How to reinstall GRUB? or any other loader?

Hi I am new to linux. I have installed Debian 3.1. My problem is that Debian is the default OS. I want Windows to be default OS. What should I do? Another thing is, how to increase the time for which the GRUB boot screen is displayed. It's some 5 seconds here. Please help me. Aditya...

"Kernel Panic-Not syncing:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (3,9)" I get this error while booting Mandriva 2006 after trying to change the Grub Splash Image. Please tell me how to revert back to the default splash image, or solve it in other way.

say one wants to install fc5(dvd) with ubuntu and windows already present and for some reason the fc5 installs fails at last step..now u boot and find grub has error...now is there any way to fix grub loader using ubuntu live cd????

i have win 98 , win 2000 & win xp on my pc and i recently install open suse 10 the grub screen at starting shows these options suse 10 windows failsafe ---------------------------- and selecting windows will take u to the old known menu with 3 options win xp win 2000 win 98...

hi everybody i installed PCOlinux2006 on my system along with windows xp but i didn'tlike it so i went to disk management in windows and deleted the unrecognized linux partition(i didn't knew how to uninstall linux) but now when i boot GRUB v0.95 shows and doesn't let me boot into windows plz...

i recently installed ubuntu dapper. then formatted C:/ drive and installed XP again. now the MBR was erased and GRUB was lost. how do i reinstall GRUB. Dapper has GUI installation. so how do i reinstall GRUB. thnx

I have two hard-disks. On one hard disk I first installed Linux (RHEL-4). At this stage my boot loader was grub. Then I installed Windows on second hard-disk. Due to which grub was over written by boot loader of windows. How ever all my linux partitions on other hard-disk are safe. I want to...