Need to recover from an ID-10-T error.

[UNGER, JOHN WM]

and the one I edited was not the right one.
Let me go searching some.

Any ideas how I can get to the partitions through the terminal? I'd rather do that than keep working with the GUI that seems to be directing me somewhere else...

-John U
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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of UNGER, JOHN WM [JWU001 at shsu.edu]
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OK, the only way I know to edit menu.lst is to logon as root.

I know how to do that even from the boot cd, but it'll take me a couple of minutes to do that & then reboot with grub to see what happens.

-John U
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UNGER, JOHN WM wrote:
> Sorry, TMI.
>
> ubuntu at ubuntu:/$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x83e6d949
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1               1           4       32098+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2   *        1276       13433    97656250    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3               5        1275    10209307+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda4           13434       77825   517228740   83  Linux
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
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> UNGER, JOHN WM wrote:
>> 'K, here we go:
>>
>
> I'm really only interested in the output of fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> The partition table belongs to the whole disk, not an individual
> partition.  Most, if not all, fdisk type operations are made against the
> disk device rather than a partition device.
>
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We're almost done here John.

Now then, I need to confirm that what you think is the menu.lst file is
indeed the menu.lst that grub is picking up.  The easiest way to do this
is to make a change to a title and see if it changes when we boot into
the grub menu.

Change:

title           Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)

to:

title           Windows Vista/Longhorn (test)


Note: This might be a problem.  You probably won't have write permission
to this file, and I'm not at all sure how to open the file as root from
the gui.  You'll probably have to figure out how the filesystem is
mounted.  Assuming you are booting from a Ubuntu CD, when you are in the
directory where your menu.lst is located, the location should be visible
as a bar of buttons beneath the button bar (beneath the 'Back' 'Forward'
etc.).. There's also a button to the left hand side that changes the
buttons to a "Location" bar, The complete path to the file should be
printed in that Location bar.

Once you know where the menu.lst file is, you can:

sudo gedit /somewhere/in/the/filesystem/menu.lst

Once you've made the change to menu.lst, reboot, and confirm that the
grub menu now reflects the change you made.  Also, let me know what that
path was.



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