First, I'm about as new as a newbie can get. Second, thanks for your suggestion, but I have done every which way I know to do as you suggest, but no luck. What I've done is to boot with a live cd (and I've used both Ubuntu and Kubuntu original cd's) gone into install, installed as far as partition and chosen "manual", chose not to format, and got to desktop. Opened terminal and 1) typed "grub-install" - and got something about not finding something (I didn't keep notes). 2) tried another way, typed "grub" - got "grub >" and typed " root (hda,7)", (which is where I think my root is) and got similar answer - cannot find ... etc.
Perhaps I'm not doing this correctly.
I've also tried to locate on my live cd's the rescue option (which everyone is saying is there) - perhaps I'm doing something wrong here to.
Any suggestions warmly received, but please in terms of one syllable so that I can follow - and learn.
I like linux, I want to use it instead of win98, don't want to pay Bill for anything else, but the early learning curve is a bit steep.
Thanks Eric
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.
Hi Eric
On Sunday 22 April 2007 10:32, elc@freeola.net wrote:
1) typed "grub-install" - and got something about not finding something (I didn't keep notes). 2) tried another way, typed "grub" - got "grub >" and typed " root (hda,7)", (which is where I think my root is) and got similar answer - cannot find ... etc.
Assuming root is on hda7, the grub command should have been `root (hd0,6)` followed by `setup (hd0)`.
Grub uses a numbering system starting at zero for it's drive designations which isn't quite the same as Linux ;(.
Perhaps I'm not doing this correctly.
Apart from a little confusion over grub's numbering system, you're well on the way.
Regards, Paul.
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 11:10 +0100, Paul wrote:
Assuming root is on hda7, the grub command should have been `root (hd0,6)` followed by `setup (hd0)`.
Grub uses a numbering system starting at zero for it's drive designations which isn't quite the same as Linux ;(.
Perhaps I'm not doing this correctly.
Apart from a little confusion over grub's numbering system, you're well on the way.
That's the second time on this thread that I have been halfway through writing a reply when Paul has jumped in with a speedy response :-)
Anyway in addition to Paul's suggestion I think the reason the original grub-install plan didn't work is that if you are running grub-install from a drive other than the intended boot drive (i.e. you have booted from a live cd and are running grub-install from there) then I think you have to give the intended boot drive as an argument.
So in your case
grub-install /dev/hda
There is no need to specify the partition number here, as grub should then scan the whole drive for bootable partitions and rebuild/reinstall grub for you. This is still assuming that you only have one physical hard drive in your machine.
PS. To get to the rescue mode from the ubuntu media, type
linux rescue
At the boot prompt when you first boot from the Ubuntu CD, this may help you a bit because it will hopefully mount your existing filesystems first which I think is a requirement for the method Paul is suggesting and may also be a requirement for mine.
-
elc＠freeola.net -
Paul -
Wayne Stallwood