<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:59 PM, 74yrs old <<a href="mailto:withblessings@gmail.com">withblessings@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Reg: find out which drive has ubuntu. Will you please elaborate how to find which drive has ubuntu - which I am not aware since I am newbie to linux. In windows it is easily can be located any drive but not in linux which is difficult for me!</blockquote> <div> There are many ways to find, easier one (GUI) is install gparted (gnome partition editor), open it, you can see / partition drive letter something simialr to sda1, sda7 (meaning 7th partition) on drive 1/a, sdb1 (1st partition on drive 2/b) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -sriranga(76yrsold) <div class="gmail_quote">2009/8/22 Mallikarjun <<a href="mailto:mallik.v.arjun@gmail.com" target="_blank">mallik.v.arjun@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On 22/08/2009, sivakumar bharadhwaj <<a href="mailto:jeyendrasiva@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeyendrasiva@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am using (now become my favourite) JAUNTY - and enjoying every moment - > for the past 2 months. And some of my collegues too have starting installing > Jaunty, and they too are very very happy about it. (not about it being FREE, > but the freedom to mix, and customise it for their / my desktop !!!). > Further I am a newbie to LINUX, have been a faithful windows (from DOS days > - XP). > Some of my friends provided links to rescue your jaunty and some to reinstall a new OS, but i will guide your to rescue jaunty if few steps 1) Boot live CD, open Terminal 2) type in these commands a) sudo grub (a new command line opens with prompt>) b) find /boot/grub/stage1 Output: (hdx,y) (similar to that) The above output means grub is installed on x drive and y partition, so if more than one output (in your case one for ubuntu one for suse) find out which drive has ubuntu or try both c) root (hdx,y) d) setup (hdx) 3) exit and reboot 4) happy ubuntuing any probs mail me back > I have grub installed, have XP & Jaunty, in my laptop - Lenovo 3000 G530. > 250 GB, 2 GB ram, integrated camera - 5 months old. > > Yesterday, I installed, with some difficulty OPEN SUSE 11. and my problem > started. > > I could see in the initial boot - grub - OPEN SUSE 11, ubuntu 9.04, > microsoft xp. > > But when I clicked / enter - It did not boot, and says - no software > detected. still the same situation. > > BUT, I USED JAUNTY LIVE CD - and could take out the documents and files in > my thumb drive. so my datas are safe now. LIVE CD is a REAL HELP in these > situations. WHEN PC / LAPTOP DO NOT BOOT, and you want to secure your > files, IT HELPS SO MUCH. > > I THANK WITH MY FULL HEART FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE MADE THIS 'LIVE CD' stuff. > > But, at the same time, help me to open my favourite Jaunty - in my usual > way, and I want to delete OPEN SUSE 11. Want to have only Jaunty & XP. > > Help me. > > Thanks once again, folks !!! > > s. sivakumar > chennai > 93810 66558 > -- Mallikarjun <a href="http://mallikarjuna.com" target="_blank">http://mallikarjuna.com</a> </div></div> <div class="im"> -- ubuntu-in mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </div></blockquote></div> -- ubuntu-in mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a> </blockquote></div>