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wallstreet
 Post subject: Problems with Grub bootloader, I have nowhere to turn...
PostPosted: September 26th, 2010, 22:37 
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Im hoping some linux guy comes across this post, as ive spent the last 14 hours messing with all kinds of installation and still not got it working, ye u heard rite.. 14h.. im off to bed but before I thought y not post it here.

My problem is :

Grub Bootloader do not want to load after I installed Linux Ubuntu on it, ive reinstalled many of times but it just wont load. Im adding it to the MBR /dev/sda but still win xp just keeps booting up for me.

DISK 1 - Linux <- That I cant launch due to the bootloader not working
DISK 2 - Windows XP Installation <- fully working

Any ideas, pls post em here. Gnite ;(

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enderst
 Post subject: Re: Problems with Grub bootloader, I have nowhere to turn...
PostPosted: September 27th, 2010, 2:08 
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bios set to boot DISK 1/dev/sda ?
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 Post subject: Re: Problems with Grub bootloader, I have nowhere to turn...
PostPosted: September 27th, 2010, 3:53 
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wallstreet wrote:
Im hoping some linux guy comes across this post, as ive spent the last 14 hours messing with all kinds of installation and still not got it working, ye u heard rite.. 14h.. im off to bed but before I thought y not post it here.

My problem is :

Grub Bootloader do not want to load after I installed Linux Ubuntu on it, ive reinstalled many of times but it just wont load. Im adding it to the MBR /dev/sda but still win xp just keeps booting up for me.

DISK 1 - Linux <- That I cant launch due to the bootloader not working
DISK 2 - Windows XP Installation <- fully working

Any ideas, pls post em here. Gnite ;(


try those links:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Recov ... ingWindows

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/r ... es-it-out/

or google: win xp grub bootloader fix

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mips
 Post subject: Re: Problems with Grub bootloader, I have nowhere to turn...
PostPosted: September 29th, 2010, 9:06 
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enderst wrote:
bios set to boot DISK 1/dev/sda ?


I get the same impression.

Alternatively he must install grub to the xp disk when he does the installation.
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wallstreet
 Post subject: Re: Problems with Grub bootloader, I have nowhere to turn...
PostPosted: September 30th, 2010, 15:52 
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I changed boot prio and i sorted it out, thx guys.. sorry for late reply been studyin linux and hdd ;).. appriciate em replies a lot!

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