1a)Yes Windows boots fine when pen drive is not connected.
1b) Because of the re-installation of the XP I can't boot into the HDs Ubuntu
2a)When Pen drive is connected pen drives Ubuntu boots up...
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1a)Yes Windows boots fine when pen drive is not connected.
1b) Because of the re-installation of the XP I can't boot into the HDs Ubuntu
2a)When Pen drive is connected pen drives Ubuntu boots up...
I can't boot into the other os.
I have 2 hard drives and first is 500gb which is connected to master and another is connected to slave and that is of 80gb and 1st partition has installed Win XP which is of 30gbs, 2nd is swap and...
Partition Table Messed Up
there was a 38gb unallocated space and to create new partition ive just clicked on new and applied the changes and without askin me disk management deleted my ubuntu partition it was the third...
Finally I fixed the both boot loaders and back in Ubuntu :)
It was before Grub menu appearing
But now Ive Fixed my Xp's Mbr and booted into XP
Can I do a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10 or repair the Grub??
Ive Repeted the 4th step again and the problem was same.
And afterwords something gone wrong, Now Iam getting the GRUB error 17 while booting
right now iam on live 8.10 and tried fixing that...
No I didn't done that.
Ive tried changing each and every setting in my BIOS.
And I was waiting near about 5to6 minutes at the "verifying dmi pool data" step.:confused:
I've tried everithing same problem
board freezes at Verifing DMI pool data
and BTW Iam using XFX630i
1- I marked sdb1 as bootable.
2- I rebooted my PC booted from the pen drive.
3- And my BIOS was showing as:
Verifying DMI pool data
_
And the cursor was blinking.
4- I booted...
After connecting the pen drive I done what you said and got following
grub> device (hd1) /dev/sda
grub> root (hd1,6)
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
...
Do I need to do that every time I boot?
and what if I need to boot into XP?
Regards
I tried that and i got result as following
codpawn@root-wick:~$ sudo fdisk -lu
[sudo] password for codpawn:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801...
How to install GRUB on the pen drive
Hi
Iam a total noob to the linux cuz ive just switched from windooze
i heard somewhere that i can install grub to pen drive
i wanna do that cuz i wanna...
Hi there
When I was installing ubuntu with alternate install cd,
I accidentally formatted my wind00ze partition to ext3 and I lost my important data the file system of the partition was FAT32....