Re: grub doesn't load

[Hal MacArgle <haltec@kvinet.com>]

Greetings: Missed most of this thread so forgive if I make a stupid
comment especially since I know nothing of WinXP:

Did you change /boot/grub/menu.lst?? Maybe your lashup doesn't use
that file? Also, read somewhere, that WinXP does some strange things
to the MBR, etc.. Don't know what, etc..

I do have two machines booting with Grub, several versions of
Slackware 9.X as default, or selected, and Win9X as a selection
partition.. It does work well for us... HTH.

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20)
           
	     Anyone can pile complexity upon complexity;
                  only a genius can truly simplify..


On 06-19, Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote:
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> I rescued it using the disk. On undoing what I had done (which screwed up grub), Grub still didn't recover (I am sure that I undid correctly, as I had only changed one parameter in grub.conf - 'default'). So I reinstalled grub from the disk.
> But the problem still remains of changing the boot order.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> Anshuman
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: pa3gcu <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl>
> Date: Saturday, June 19, 2004 3:56 am
> Subject: Re: grub doesn't load
> 
> > On Saturday 19 June 2004 02:33, Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have a dual boot system with grub as the loader.
> > > I wanted to change the default from WinXP to linux.
> > > So I changed the 'default' from 1 to 0 in grub.conf.
> > > 1 = Win (the second entry in grub.conf. linux was the first).
> > >
> > > Now the big problem is grub doesn't load any of the 2 OSes. Infact,
> > > it doesn;t even reach that startup screen. It just freezes!!
> > >
> > > Any clue how to fix this without a rescue disk (this PC doesn't 
> > have a
> > > floppy drive) ?
> > 
> > One must presume you installed via a cdrom then as you have no floppy,
> > so use your install cdrom as a rescue medium.
> > Most distro's have a rescue option.
> > You made no mention of which distro so i cant say.
> > 
> > > A quick help will really be appreciated!
> > 
> > To get proper help one needs to know _details_ of course you 
> > forgot the 
> > details so the reply's may well be quick but if they are helpful 
> > is another 
> > matter.
> > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > Anshuman
> > 
> > -- 
> > If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because they
> > try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community
> > is built on organized crime.
> > 
> > Regards Richard
> > pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
> > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> > 
> > 
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