Thanks both Kevin and Philip, will try. On 1/26/07, Philip Serracino Inglott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On linux IDE HDs are called /dev/hda for the first disk /dev/hdb for the second etc.... Partions are called /dev/hda1 for the first partition on the first disk /dev/hda2 for the second etc ... One way to find out which disk is which is to use a partition manager (parted, gparted or something) and see what kind of partition is on it. (CAREFUL: do not make any changes in the partition manager, you might loose data, just have a look) The disk dedicated to linux probabbly has a swap partition. The one with windows has an NTFS filesystem on it. Another way to find out which partition is which is to try and mount it and look at what's inside. Open a terminal window, then as root (use "sudo" if using ubuntu) do "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt"; You should get a message saying something like partition of type X mounted ...". Now a simple "ls /mnt" and you should get a good idea of what partition it is. Remember to do "umount /dev/hda1" before trying the next one, so as not to mount a bunch of file systems on top of each other. Once you know where you grub config file is it should be easy to set up grub again ... but I never had a dual boot with XP so I can't help much there. Philip
___ Jonathan, ide drives on linux are named as /dev/hda hdb hdc etc according to the order in which they are found. sata and scsi drives are named as /dev/sda, sdb, sdc etc. the first partition on your first drive would be /dev/hda1 the second partition on your first drive would be /dev/hda2 (or sda2 for sata/scsi) so your second disk (where Ubuntu is installed) would be /dev/hdb or /dev/sdb depending on if it is ide or sata/scsi Regards, Kevin Jonathan Cassar wrote:
Hi, I recently installed XP with Ubuntu on dual boot. The system was fine for some week, grub was loading as it was supposed to. One day i switch on the pc and after Grub loads stage 1.5, the system just reboots. It continues this way until its switched off. Now since i needed XP I fixed the MBR so now XP is loading but no sign of Ubuntu. I found some tutorials on the net on how to reinstall grub, the problem is that I'm no so familiar with how Linux names the HDD, so I'm confused on how to do it. My setup consists of 2 HDDs. HDD1 for XP having 2 partitions. HDD2 for Ubuntu 6.06 Cheers ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://mailserv.megabyte.net/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
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