Hello-
I have a problem. I have made an earnest attempt to solve this problem on my own
and was unsuccessful. I brought my computer to Dr. Beck and he suggested that I post
my problem to tslug. I have been to a couple meetings.
I need some help with Grub. I have a toshiba satellite 2595XDVD laptop. I have a
20 GB hd. I have windows XP Pro installed on the first partition. Which was
originally a 12 GB partition. Directly after that partition was my boot partition for
linux redhat 8.0. Then I had a 4 GB partition for linux. The next partition was an
extended partition which had the swap partition in it. I use Windows mainly but
really want to learn the power of linux and so i have been playing with it.
I decided I wanted to re-arrange my partitions to allow me to create a NTFS
partition to store all my documents so they will be readable by both windows and
linux. I want it to be ntfs to preserve the file permissions for windows xp pro but
still be able to read the partition from linux (redhat 8.0 can read from ntfs). I
then also want to create a FAT32 partition that i can write files from linux to and
still read in Windows. So having this scheme in mind I started to repartition. I
have partition magic 7.0 and was having problems resizing and moving the existing
linux partitions. I just decide to delete all my partitions except the Windows XP
partition and thats what I did and where I screwed up (I guess). I did not konw this
at the time (didn't even think about it) but when I deleted the boot partition I guess
I removed some important stuff for grub.
So when i rebooted i came to a grub prompt. Usually, I come to a graphical menu
which allows me to select windows xp or linux. I deleted that file, which used to
reside in /boot/grub/ (along with every other file in that directory). I figured out
how to manually boot into windows xp using the commands
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot
So here is problem 1. I would like to be able to have the graphical menu where i can
select what os to boot. I know I need a file called menu.lst but I don't know where
to put it. I would imagine that grub is still trying to look in /boot/grub for that
file.
Here is a wierd part. I want to reinstall linux so I put in my linux cd and it
won't load up. It just hangs with a screen with one line at the top that says Linux
1.75. However, when I put my windows xp cd in it will boot up and allow me to proceed
with the normal install procedure. So problem 2. I can't reinstall linux.
I was wondering if anyone knew some stuff about grub that could help me out or
help me figure out how to reinstall linux.
Thank in advance for any help
Corey Crandall
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