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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:16:51PM -0000, Abhishek Kumar wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I installed Gentoo Linux a few days ago on my WinME, and NT system and now my computer is almost unusable because of a stupid mistake I made. Installing from floppy, I think I installed grub on the (hd0,0) instead of (hd0). HD0, 0 is the WinME partition. As a result, it has overwritten the NT Loader which used to boot WinME and NT. Now I can boot Gentoo, but not the other OSes. I tried to install grub again on the (hd0,0) but now it refuses to do it.My question is, is there any way of getting the installation back without reinstalling NT? |
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Sorry, I can't really help you with this, since I don't know much of |
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anything about WinNT. But, I would guess that there is a way to install |
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the bootloader over again, unless microsoft is stupider than I |
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thought... But next time, install the grub to (hd0), and grub will be |
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your default bootloader; then you can add an entry to menu.lst which |
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points to the winnt bootloader partition, and you'll get the winnt boot |
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menu. |
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> Also, I am unable to decompress the stuff in the packages directory on the CD as they seem to be corrupt. Did nobody else come across this? I got the rc4_pre2 cd a couple of days after it was released. |
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> I hope I was able to explain my situation. I will appreciate your help. |
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The packages are all tbz2 files, which means they are compressed w/ |
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bzip2. You should use tar xjf rather than tar xzf to decompress them; |
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if you're just trying to install the packages, use portage-merge |
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<packagename>.tbz2 instead. |
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Pete |
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<pete@g.o> |
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