kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 49, Issue 63

[Ray Burke]

Norberto,

I am not sure what you mean by " Select "repair" from the boot menu" 
as I have never seen this appear????

ray

> Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:23:26 -0200
> Subject: Re: kubuntu-users Digest, Vol 49, Issue 63
> From: nbensa at gmail.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Ray Burke <rayburke30 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Norberto,
> >
> > You mean boot up with the dual boot drives(corrupt xp pro mbr and Kubuntu)
> > using the live cd for K, then once booted in how just run grub and follow
> > the standard grub install
> >> procedure.
> 
> Yes. Unless there's a reason to disable one or the other, you should
> always boot with both drives connected and enabled.
> 
> First, from your emails, I assume that hd0 is Windows XP and hd1 is
> Kubuntu. I'm assuming hd0 is sda, and hd1 is sdb. And sdb1 is /boot.
> If some of these is not true, then adjust the values bellow.
> 
> Boot your computer with the livecd or whatever media you have for
> Kubuntu. Select "repair" from the boot menu.
> 
> When the repair tool ask you for your root partition, press ALT+F2.
> You should see a console. Type everything after #:
> 
> # grub
> 
> root (hd1,0)
> setup (hd1)
> 
> (after this command, you should see blahblah blah successful. If not,
> copy and paste here the message)
> 
> quit
> 
> # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> # nano /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> (try not to accidentally modify this file; ignore everything in this
> file that starts with #)
> 
> There should be a line like "root (hd0,0)" (without quotes of course.)
> Change it to: root (hd1,0)
> 
> Now press CTRL+O, CTRL+X
> 
> # umount /mnt
> # reboot
> 
> Configure your BIOS to boot your Kubuntu HD first.
> 
> Remove the CD and test if Kubuntu boots. If it does, in a next email
> we'll configure grub to boot XP from the Kubuntu hard drive, but you
> will have to repair its MBR first.
> 
> Regards,
> Norberto
> 
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