Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-04 Thread Manish Kumar
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> Date: Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 9:43 AM 2008/6/4 aashish khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > GUYS thanx alot for ur time and advice, and sorry t

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/6/4 aashish khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > GUYS thanx alot for ur time and advice, and sorry to those who got pissed > off my silly questions..u've all been a gr8 help Errr aashish good form to bottom post and if you were successful in problem solving put out the final sollution so that it is

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread aashish khanna
GUYS thanx alot for ur time and advice, and sorry to those who got pissed off my silly questions..u've all been a gr8 help On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:20 PM, vivek v <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Mehul Ved" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread vivek v
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Mehul Ved" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > >> On Tue Jun 03, 2008 at 07:48:13AM -0400, aashish khanna wrote: >>> also mehul how to reapair MBR???is it by using windows install CD? >> >> Yes, from the windows CD go to the

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread Manish Kumar
ope u r still alive (help me out ,i NEED a dual boot else my sister will slit my throat)  ... :) ~Manish Yahoo! --- On Tue, 6/3/08, aashish khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: aashish khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA To: "The Lin

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
"Mehul Ved" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue Jun 03, 2008 at 07:48:13AM -0400, aashish khanna wrote: >> also mehul how to reapair MBR???is it by using windows install CD? > > Yes, from the windows CD go to the repair mode. Just search for fixboot > and fixmbr you should get a lot of results.

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread aashish khanna
dude...the command asks fort the password and then says the user is not a sudoer...and in the root it does not recognize the command On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue Jun 03, 2008 at 07:48:13AM -0400, aashish khanna wrote: > > also mehul how to reapai

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue Jun 03, 2008 at 07:48:13AM -0400, aashish khanna wrote: > also mehul how to reapair MBR???is it by using windows install CD? Yes, from the windows CD go to the repair mode. Just search for fixboot and fixmbr you should get a lot of results. But, before that it would do a lot of good to pos

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread aashish khanna
also mehul how to reapair MBR???is it by using windows install CD? On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:45 AM, aashish khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dude i tried all the combinations but it shows something like device not > found... > so i guess i'll try mehul's method... > but am still curious what

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread aashish khanna
dude i tried all the combinations but it shows something like device not found... so i guess i'll try mehul's method... but am still curious what all went wrong and Why after changing grub's menu list nothing s happening On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:30 AM, aashish khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread aashish khanna
sahil..how do i find out where does my window reside it shud be either hda 4 or 5 i ll try both the devices... and how do i reinstall gub later on On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Sahil Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:22 PM, aashish khanna < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > w

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread Sahil Dave
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 9:22 PM, aashish khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > guys the situation is like this: > 1. I had a XP installed on my C: but it got corrupted sometime back,but i > needed some data on the desktop. > 2. so i installed another XP on D:,thus having a option to boot from either

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-02 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon Jun 02, 2008 at 11:11:32PM -0400, aashish khanna wrote: > does that mean i'll have to re-install XP?? but i guess even that won't make > a difference becoz GRUB still won't recognize it. i want to keep the XP on > D: and Fedora on C: and want a dual boot. Firstly, there's no concept of C: a

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-02 Thread aashish khanna
does that mean i'll have to re-install XP?? but i guess even that won't make a difference becoz GRUB still won't recognize it. i want to keep the XP on D: and Fedora on C: and want a dual boot. the GRUB loader at the time of installation detected "other" OS as well aashish> on hda5 and it was in

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-02 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
> aashish khanna writes: aashish> guys the situation is like this: aashish> 1. I had a XP installed on my C: but it got corrupted sometime back,but i aashish> needed some data on the desktop. aashish> 2. so i installed another XP on D:,thus having a option to boot from either

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-02 Thread aashish khanna
this is not a entry...the screen just shows these two lines and nothing else...no option to boot,no progress.nothing On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Mahesh T. Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "aashish khanna" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 5. but during the boot on selecting the "other" i

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-02 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
"aashish khanna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 5. but during the boot on selecting the "other" it shows >rootnoverify(hd0,4) >chainloader +1 > What is the problem with this? Did you actually try booting from that entry? I ha

[ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-02 Thread aashish khanna
guys the situation is like this: 1. I had a XP installed on my C: but it got corrupted sometime back,but i needed some data on the desktop. 2. so i installed another XP on D:,thus having a option to boot from either of the two windows(one corrupt) 3. now i formatted C: and installed fedora core 6(s