On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Ulhas Bhole <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Mandar, > I haven't followed the whole thread but if you are not keen on Windows > loader to load Linux what you can do is change the boot flag. Currently you > windows partion will have a boot flag active which you can change and mark > your /dev/sda6 active (boot flag). you can do this by booting into Live > CD/DVD and using gparted or if you are fan of commandline utility then you > can use fdisk but it is bit risky there and you need to be sure about what > you are doing with FDISK. But logically, this seems like problem with installation itself, nothing to do with Active parition. I actually do get GRUB menu, and when selected it starts "memtest". Problem is that there is no "vmlinuz" file at all on /boot (confirmed this by mounting the file system via LiveCD) If the "vmlinuz" file was present, Abhishek's suggestion of editing menu.lst would have worked. > Grub anyway should have your windows entry so you can use Grub to dual > boot. To be honest I tried 2-3 times in past to configure windows boot > loader to load Linux but failed all the time and gave up. Change active boot > partition is much easier. I have successfully tried it with PCQLinux (but with LILO, not GRUB) It is not that complicated. But as I mentioned above, the files themselves are missing from /boot, so LILO or GRUB may not matter. -Mandar -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [email protected] for mailing instructions.
