Linux Help!!!!!

[Anubis]

ok ill give that a shot

 

[Sunner]

I'm not a GRUB user so pardon my ignorance, but don't you have to run grub-install or some command like that to write the new bootsector?

Similar to just running lilo when using LILO?

 

[manly]

RTFM [www.redhat.com]

 

[Nothinman]

Grub understands the filesystems, so you don't have to reinstall it like lilo everytime you change the config, it's one of it's major advantages.

 

[Sunner]

Impressive

 

[Anubis]

last night sometime i goy it to way windows o the bootloader but when i chose it it went into the win2k setup thing it didnt recognize thati had it allready had it installed. that was really annoying. anyway i enede dup reformating teh drive i had linux installed on figuring that woulf fix it. nope. it still tried to run grub for some reason. so i uninstalled the other drive. installed a new version of windows on that drive and pluged the other one as teh slave and horay. i was able to save all the stuff i needed. just caused me a mojor headache. god damn linux. anyway thanks for all you help everyone

 

[Nothinman]

fdisk /mbr would have cleaned grub off the MBR without all that work, if you had only asked.

And maybe I'm strange, but I don't think Linux is to blame here.

 

[Hector13]

<< fdisk /mbr would have cleaned grub off the MBR without all that work, if you had only asked.

And maybe I'm strange, but I don't think Linux is to blame here. >>



Actually, it might be Redhat's fault. When I installed Redhat 7.2 (dual boot with grub) redhat screwed up my grub config file (the windows 2000 part).
For some reason, it seemed to get my win 2k boot partition wrong.

In any case, I was able to get the dual boot working again without having to format. I think your best bet might have been pressing
e for edit (or whatever option it is) on the grub boot screen and then edit the rootnoverify (hd0,1) line like nothinman said. But doing it in the boot menu gives you the chance of chaning the partition number until you get it right.

 

[thornc]

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<< yea i would do that that but i cant get into linux because for some reasoni cant log in cause non of the passwords i set 3work. i nredy to throw my comp out the window >>


sounds like the problem lies somewhere between the chair and the keyboard. try looking there and report back >>



I'm almost certain it is....

 

[Sunner]

This thread reminds me of Jeff K.
At least certain parts of it