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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 |
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> now my computer is almost unusable because of a stupid mistake I made. |
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> Installing from floppy, I think I installed grub on the (hd0,0) instead |
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> of (hd0). HD0, 0 is the WinME partition. As a result, it has overwritten |
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> the NT Loader which used to boot WinME and NT. Now I can boot Gentoo, but |
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> not the other OSes. I tried to install grub again on the (hd0,0) but now |
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> it refuses to do it.My question is, is there any way of getting the |
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> installation back without reinstalling NT? |
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First, is it possible that you followed the instructions perfectly but still had |
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this problem? If so, then either ME or NT should be bootable (most likely ME will |
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work, but not NT). Try using the chainloader command with GRUB to boot your ME |
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partition: |
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grub> root (hd0,0) |
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grub> chainloader +1 |
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grub> boot |
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Try this on your NT partition as well. If both boot, you can make menu entries |
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for them in your menu.lst file. If one works (I'm guessing ME) then add that |
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one to you menu.lst. Then, post back here and we'll try to get the NT loader |
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reinstalled. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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