I'm dual booting win98SE and Ubuntu, and have had a choice menu on bootup of either Ubuntu or windows, Ubuntu being the default. Due to a need of having to re-install win98SE, I have now lost this menu option and thus cannot access linux. How can I get this menu choice back. Thanks elc
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 23:07, elc@freeola.net wrote:
I'm dual booting win98SE and Ubuntu, and have had a choice menu on bootup of either Ubuntu or windows, Ubuntu being the default. Due to a need of having to re-install win98SE, I have now lost this menu option and thus cannot access linux. How can I get this menu choice back.
Boot up from a Live CD and run grub-install.
Regards, Paul.
On 18-Apr-07 22:07:01, elc@freeola.net wrote:
I'm dual booting win98SE and Ubuntu, and have had a choice menu on bootup of either Ubuntu or windows, Ubuntu being the default. Due to a need of having to re-install win98SE, I have now lost this menu option and thus cannot access linux. How can I get this menu choice back. Thanks elc
The problem is that on re-installing Windows, the Windows installation over-wrote your Master Boot Record (the first 512 bytes on the HD).
You previous MBR contained a pointer to the GRUB boot-loader (or in some other cases LILO, but Ubuntu uses GRUB), which then brought up the menu. Now this has gone.
Thsi problem gets raised often. The posts in the following URL look useful:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/20/backing-up-the-mbr/
but, to be honest, I'm shooting a bit in the dark here (thoug on your behalf ... ) since I've never been in that situation myself. So I hope there are readers whose specific experience of successful rescue will give really reliable advice!
Good luck, and best wishes, Ted.
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:43:31PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
On 18-Apr-07 22:07:01, elc@freeola.net wrote:
I'm dual booting win98SE and Ubuntu, and have had a choice menu on bootup of either Ubuntu or windows, Ubuntu being the default. Due to a need of having to re-install win98SE, I have now lost this menu option and thus cannot access linux. How can I get this menu choice back. Thanks elc
[snip lots of good advice]
... and in the long term install Vmware Player and run your win98SE (or whatever) as a guest in Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is one of Vmware's "supported" Linux distributions so it's dead easy and there's lots of support available. Vmware Player is free by the way.
Where can you obtain vmware player from if its freeware please, and is it available for other flavours of Linux?
Thanks and Rgds
Von
On 19/04/07, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:43:31PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
On 18-Apr-07 22:07:01, elc@freeola.net wrote:
I'm dual booting win98SE and Ubuntu, and have had a choice menu on bootup of either Ubuntu or windows, Ubuntu being the default. Due to a need of having to re-install win98SE, I have now lost this menu option and thus cannot access linux. How can I get this menu choice back. Thanks elc
[snip lots of good advice]
... and in the long term install Vmware Player and run your win98SE (or whatever) as a guest in Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is one of Vmware's "supported" Linux distributions so it's dead easy and there's lots of support available. Vmware Player is free by the way.
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Yvonne Everett wrote:
Where can you obtain vmware player from if its freeware please, and is it available for other flavours of Linux?
Thanks and Rgds
Von
You can get iot from here
http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html
HTH
Chris
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:53:41AM +0100, Yvonne Everett wrote:
Where can you obtain vmware player from if its freeware please, and is it available for other flavours of Linux?
Try guessing - www.vmware.com.
Vmware comes in various guises, the ones I know (a very little) about are:-
Vmware Player - runs 'ready made' client images, free Vmware Workstation - as above but can create images and is a more complete 'ready to run' appliaction, costs quite a bit Vmware Server - runs as a server so remote users can run client OS, free but quite a bit more difficult to set up.
There are lots more, mostly expensive and aimed at corporate users.
Vmware Player can do just about all that Vmware Workstation can do, it's just that creating new client images is more roundabout and you need to find a few extras from the Vmware site for yourself and install them.
The vmware web site has *lots* of information, possibly too much for the new user.
Vmware will run on virtually any Linux distribution, I have it running on Slackware which is 'not supported'. It's just that the supported distributions will install with less hassle. It will also run on various versions of windows as host. Again the Vmware web site will tell you all you need to know and more.
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