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Goofed grub boot menu
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1-13-2009 10:10 AM
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Fix for windows or other taking your linux boot menu.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/57276976-0bb1-4f42-9136-a8e00f5dea96/9C3B54E2-1D5D-4071-979C-5D8863C04570/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.troublefixers.com/use-windows-and-linux-together-on-the-same-computer/" href="http://www.troublefixers.com/use-windows-and-linux-together-on-the-same-computer/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.troublefixers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.troublefixers.com/use-windows-and-linux-together-on-the-same-computer/"><P><SPAN id="more-40"></SPAN> Due to wrong sequence of installation of windows over a Linux system, windows erases the existing boot-loader from boot sector of the hard disk. It overwrites existing boot sector with the windows boot-loader (NTLDR). </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.troublefixers.com/use-windows-and-linux-together-on-the-same-computer/"><P>But don’t worry as you can simply fix this using a Linux bootable CD<STRONG> /DVD.</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.troublefixers.com/use-windows-and-linux-together-on-the-same-computer/"><STRONG>Boot the computer with the Linux bootable CD / DVD. </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.troublefixers.com/use-windows-and-linux-together-on-the-same-computer/"><P>1. At the boot prompt, type ‘<STRONG>linux rescue</STRONG>‘ (without quotes) and hit enter. <BR />2. Continue with the default options through the prompts. <BR />3. When you get to a bash prompt, type ‘chroot /mnt/sysimage’ (I think that’s the path). <BR />4. Then, type ‘/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda’ (assuming, hda is your system drive).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.troublefixers.com/use-windows-and-linux-together-on-the-same-computer/"><P>5. Eject the cd /dvd and reboot your computer ,you will see the default grub bootloader which allows you to boot both with <STRONG>windows and Linux</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.troublefixers.com/use-windows-and-linux-together-on-the-same-computer/"><P>Hope this info fixes up the trouble.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9C3B54E2-1D5D-4071-979C-5D8863C04570/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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