On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:01:44AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering about the best way to handle this problem. For a long time > I've used System Commander to create multi-boot systems. However, it has (or > maybe I have) finally hosed up things enough playing with Windows > installations that I'd like to get rid of it totally and just use grub. > Right now the state my machine is in it will only boot into Windows. When I > try to boot any Linux distro on the box (Gentoo, Redhat or Mandrake) all I > get is the message 'GRUB' and everything stops. All the partitions are > there, but Windows and SC7 have renumbered the partitions so everything is > hosed up and Linux won't boot. > > (I should boot with labels instead of partition numbers I think...) > > One option would just be to build a second Gentoo installation, and then > from there fix up that installation's grub files. This is straight forward > and I'm sure I can get it working, but it creates more work than I think I > should have to do. I'm happy to do that if it's the safest way to go.
That's the hard way! There are some good rescue distros out there - one that's floppy-based: http://www.toms.net/rb/ and some that are CD-based - if you can burn CDs from your Windows installation: http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ http://www.kernel.org/pub/dist/superrescue/v2/ Boot one of those, mount and chroot to your linux partition, and you can start cleaning things up. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
