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Re: OT: Linus or annother Linus?
de Mark Warner 04/26/2006 06:17
tim wrote:
>
> Not anything that has to do with this question, but you look like
> someone who may know something :)
Fooled you.
> I installed Mepis on the weekend, onto a spare ata 40 gig hd I had
> laying around. When asked where to install grub, I chose my sata 250
> gig so that I could also boot XP. Yowza, grub took out mbr/boot
> record, and I had to do a repair of XP to get back in to it.
>
> Grub is now on the ata 40 gig, but I can't for the life of me get it
> to let me boot up XP, even though it's listed in the menu. I'm
> getting tired of switching boot order in the bios to use either XP or
> Mepis.
>
> Any idea what I need to edit to get it to work?
Just so I understand correctly... the GRUB bootloader that came up did
*not* list Windows as an option? Yes, MEPIS would be the default, but
you should have had the option to arrow down to Windows and boot to it.
<shrug>
Boot to the Live CD, login as "root"; click Install Me; chose to
reinstall GRUB; point it to the MBR on your primary drive (hda), and
tell it which is your Linux boot/root partition (presumeably hdb1, the
first partition on the secondary drive).
Reboot without the CD. You should have MEPIS at the top of the list;
Windows should be listed, and you should be able to arrow down and boot
to it by hitting Enter.
You can edit the bootloader in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file with Kwrite
(as root):
su kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
Each section or "stanza" contains the boot information for each OS that
GRUB detected when installed. MEPIS will be at the top of the list. If
you want Windows to be the default, you can move it to the top of the
list with a simple cut/paste. You can also change the timeout setting (#
of seconds before the default OS is booted) in this file.
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Mark Warner
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