On 04/30/2009 05:58 PM, pstenl...@portoflongview.com wrote: > Help! > > Situation: 2pc's ---- home office PC dual boot XP & 8.10 Xubuntu. Shop pc > running Xbuntu 8.04 and EMC2. > > I tried KDE, ubuntu etc on the office PC and then went back to Xubuntu > 8.10. The other Gui's left a lot of stuff on the installation Kedit, > Kterminal, etc. Plus I screwed up my tool bar and couldn't seem to fix it. > So I thought I'd put the live EMC cd in and replace 8.10 with 8.04 which I > like just as well. I started the install and when the partitioning screen > came up it said "Replace 8.10 (Xgig) with 8.04 (Ygig) (not a direct quote > but that was the jist of it) exactly what I wanted to do. Started the > install, went and watched some tube, returned and restarted, no more dual > boot - goes right to 8.04..... it sure looked like it was just going to > replae 8.10 and leave the XP partition alone. > > How can I get the dual boot option back??? Please help there are some > applications (CAD in particular) that I must have XP for > > Thanks > Paul Stenlund
Hello Paul 1. check if the XP partition (NTFS) still exists. You can do this by typing "fdisk -l" in a terminal. You should see line with NTFS at the end. I guess it is /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1. 2. restore the boot entry in the grub menu.lst. You find this file at "/boot/grub/menu.lst". Insert this lines at the and of the file: title Windoz XP root (hd0,0) #(hd0,1) if it is sda2, (hd1,0) if it is sdb1 makeactive chainloader +1 save the file and reboot. For editing menu.lst you can use "sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst". Note the "sudo", you need root rights to edit this file. Thomas PS: some thing other thing. You may have to hit the ESK Key to get the boot menu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
