Thanks for the replies. I rescued it using the disk. On undoing what I had done (which screwed up grub), Grub still didn't recover (I am sure that I undid correctly, as I had only changed one parameter in grub.conf - 'default'). So I reinstalled grub from the disk. But the problem still remains of changing the boot order.
Anyone? Thanks, Anshuman ----- Original Message ----- From: pa3gcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, June 19, 2004 3:56 am Subject: Re: grub doesn't load > On Saturday 19 June 2004 02:33, Anshuman Singh Rawat wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a dual boot system with grub as the loader. > > I wanted to change the default from WinXP to linux. > > So I changed the 'default' from 1 to 0 in grub.conf. > > 1 = Win (the second entry in grub.conf. linux was the first). > > > > Now the big problem is grub doesn't load any of the 2 OSes. Infact, > > it doesn;t even reach that startup screen. It just freezes!! > > > > Any clue how to fix this without a rescue disk (this PC doesn't > have a > > floppy drive) ? > > One must presume you installed via a cdrom then as you have no floppy, > so use your install cdrom as a rescue medium. > Most distro's have a rescue option. > You made no mention of which distro so i cant say. > > > A quick help will really be appreciated! > > To get proper help one needs to know _details_ of course you > forgot the > details so the reply's may well be quick but if they are helpful > is another > matter. > > > Thanks. > > Anshuman > > -- > If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because they > try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community > is built on organized crime. > > Regards Richard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux- > newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
