Re: Question about GRUB
- From: Larry Luther <larry.luther@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:08:25 GMT
xask wrote:
I suppose he wants to use the default windows xp boot loader
and then want 2 options to show up at boot to select 1.Windows Xp and
2.Linux
and when he choses 2.Linux he wants Linux to show up
if this is what you want you can restore the original boot loader as
explained in the other message,
or if you have a Windows XP boot CD handy,
boot using it and get into the "recovery console" when asked,
then you will be left at the command prompt
now i dont remmeber the exact command to restore boot loader, type
"help" to see all command
i think it is "fixboot" followed by fixmbr.
and you are done fixing the problem of boot loader,
Now the new problem is that you now have the default Windows XP boot
loader,
which cannot boot into Linux on its own,so you will be able to boot
into Windows XP only
But there is a novel work arounf to this problem,
which is called "GRUB for Windows NT"
no dont get excited, i know what i am talking,
we will NOT install grub again as the boot loader,instead we will force
Windows XP boot loader to present two options on start up, saying "1.
Windows XP", "2.Linux" and now when you choose "2.Linux", grub will
show up again and will boot you into Linux,
I know its getting a bit complicated but have faith you will not ruin
anything by doing all this, i gaurantee, just try this.
Follow the following steps,
-- Restore your boot loader to Windows boot loader using methods
described above
-- Now boot into windows and download "GRUB for Windows NT" from-
http://www.geocities.com/lode_leroy/grubinstall/
-- unzip this zip file in the c:\boot\ directory
-- go to command prompt (by running "cmd.exe")
-- move to c:\boot by typing "cd\boot"
-- type grub-install (dont worry it wont touch any boot sector or MBR)
-- move to c:\ by typing "cd\"
-- attrib -h -s -r boot.ini (to remove hidden system read oinly status
of boot.ini)
-- edit boot.ini
-- add the following line
c:\boot\stage1="Linux"
Now your boot menu will show up Windows and Linux on startup using
windows boot loader
when you click on Linux, it will open up grub but leave you at a
command line interface that is because grub does not know what options
to display, to enable this do the following
boot into Suse and search for the file "grub.conf" or "menu.lst"
it will normally be inside /boot/grub
copy this file to the "boot" folder in the Windows Partition (possible
c:\boot) and finally you are done
Phew !!
bye
tell me if it worked out.
xask.linus
William Hymen wrote:
I have a dual boot system with Win2k
and Suse10. When I loaded Suse, it
replaced the Windows boot loader with
Grub.
Even after I burn Windows back on partiton 1
from a Ghost image, Grub is still the primay boot loader.
How do I replace Grub with the original loader
so I can have my users select Linux from the
Windows boot menu?
Thanks in advance
Bill
I thought that our replies were supposed to be at the end.
This did not work for me I suspect that the fundamentals
of the "Windows" grub loader still does not recognize
NVIDIA (soft) RAID. My first 4 disks are NVIDIA RAID - NTFS,
my Linux disk is XFS and hence isn't visible by Windows.
Hey! when this technique worked before I was using ReiserFS under x64.
Could this be the problem?
.
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