Grub set up

Richard E. Barmann reb68 at bellsouth.net
Tue Jul 4 13:13:09 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 04 July 2006 8:37 am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 07:59 -0400, Richard E. Barmann wrote:
> > This is what I have after changing the last command. With this I get
> > no
> > action, (not even press any key to continue).
>
> Before we get into the complexities of the config, by "no action" do you
> mean a perfectly blank screen except for a cursor blinking in the upper
> left corner? If so, that means there is no boot loader on the first
> disk's MBR and you will need to load one from a LiveCd or install disk.
>
> Are you sure you didn;t swap your two drives around - it's mighty
> unusual to have Linux on hda and Windows on hdb like you have them - the
> reverse is more common.
>
> alan
I tried to partition these correctly as to save my data and banking records 
but fear I have lost them anyway. I did not format anything but the swap file 
but do not see my records at this time. But that is for another day. 




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