Hi everyone, I'm having a nightmare and hoping someone can wake me up out of it:
I'll try to be as concise as possible. My CD drive has died, so I installed Damn Small Linux via unetbootin. My PC cannot boot from USB and my floppy drive is also dead. I thought DSL would add a grub entry to my existing list but instead it wrote a brand new one to the MBR. Now I cannot access my other distros! I tried to copy over my old list and edit it into the new one but when I rebooted, GRUB told me "setup signature not detected" and froze. The DSL entry still boots OK. I tried to do a restore of the old grub list via the terminal but I got a message "error parsing numbers" or something similar. I may have been doing the wrong thing as I'm a total Linux newbie. I tried to install unetbootin again in my DSL partition but I got a message saying certain files were unavailable. It looked like some dependencies were absent but I have no idea how to get them. To summarize, I want my other distros back on the bootloader but I don't know how to get them! I could try to manually edit the grub list but since it refused my paste from the old grub list, how would I know what to type?! I do have a second computer and a LAN cable if that could help in any way. As you can see I'm in a fix and any help would be very, very appreciated. Here are the entries on my OLD bootloader: # For booting SliTaz from : /dev/hda7 # title SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-slitaz) root (hd0,6) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-slitaz root=/dev/hda7 # End GRUB global section # Linux bootable partition config begins title Boxpup root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=normal # Linux bootable partition config ends # LXDE Pup title LXDE Pup root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 ro vga=normal # Linux bootable partition config ends # Linux bootable partition config begins title Vector Linux Lite root (hd0,7) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 ro vga=normal # Linux bootable partition config ends And this is for my NEW file: # This sets the default entry to boot. # Remember that GRUB counts from 0, so 1 is the second entry. default 0 # This sets the length of time in seconds that grub will wait for the user to select an OS # before it boots the default on. I reccommend at least 15 seconds. timeout 15 # Enter the entry for DSL here. Something like this. title DSL kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal # Linux bootable partition config begins title Linux (on /dev/hda2) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal # Linux bootable partition config ends # Linux bootable partition config begins title Linux (on /dev/sda4) root (hd0,3) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 ro vga=normal title DSL fb800x600 kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=788 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal title DSL fb1024x768 kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=791 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal title DSL fb1280x1024 kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=794 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal #title DSL with toram, mydsl, restore, hostname, and passwords #kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal dma toram mydsl=hda5 restore=hda5 host=DSL1 secure #title DSL with XFree86 #kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal dma toram mydsl=hda5/xfree restore=hda6 host=DSL1 secure #title DSL with mydsl, restore, persistentancy, hostname, and passwords #kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi frugal dma toram mydsl=hda3 restore=hda3 home=hda3 opt=hda3 host=DSL1 secure #title DSL Runlevel 2 #kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi nodma frugal 2 base norestore #title DSL Check filesystem(s) #kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi nodma frugal 2 toram legacy base norestore checkfs #title Windows #root (hd0,0) #chainloader +1 #makeactive #boot -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Major-problems-with-GRUB---cannot-boot-anything%21-tp21666289p21666289.html Sent from the Grub - Bugs mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
