On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:46 AM, nasir khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i was using the ubuntu8.04 and windows in the same pc.but some days ago i > have to reinstall the windows.now i could not found any option to change my > OS. > > please give me a solution. > -- > [saikat] > -- > you need to reinstall your grub. *There is no gui solutions (at least not known to me) so dont ask for one.* *Method 1* boot into your live cd in the terminal run * sudo update-grub* reboot this should solve the problem and find your Linux root.. *Alternate method 1* *sudo grub grub> find /boot/grub/stage1* *this will return a result like (hd0,*) as in (hd0,1) (hd0,2) here hd0 is the drive no and * is the partition no that your Linux root system resides. * *grub> root (hd0,*) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit* now reboot you will find your grub... now try to boot into your linux system it should work just fine... *Alternate Method 2* for extreme cases like me if you get error 17 while trying to boot into your linux system in grub then use your live cd again to boot into ubuntu in terminal run *gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst* *this will open your grub menu list turn all root (hd0,*) to the correct root location* - Thanking you Shahriar -- ubuntu-bd mailing list ubuntu-bd@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bd
