where to ask for bootloader help

[shady2]

Not sure to go to other distros or what . Briefly my problem is with bootloader. After installing LXLE there is a glitch or two yhat I want to correct. There are two windows OS on same hard drive. Please instruct which section to place my ? .Thanks !!!

[Bashing-om]

shady2; Hi !

Posting in General Help is a good as any and better than most !
OK, Let's get some info to work with.

What results when you attempt to boot ubuntu ? -> Are you setting the boot priority in bios to boot the hard drive that ubuntu is installed on ?

Can you boot to the grub boot menu ?
Else, going to have to work from the liveDVD.

in the process

of learning

[shady2]

Will boot Lxle. I get the boot screen. Option is there for winows. Dont know how to set the priority. Previous attempt to fix bootloader added an extra entry. If I select windows it goes real quick booting to c:windws. I see the quick flashby and no chance to select f:windws. Want it to go direct to c: if no selection is made.
Many thanks !!!

[oldos2er]

Moved to Other OS/Distro Support.

[shady2]

ok .
Attempt to run (sudo fdisk -1) in terminal emulator , got nothing. Window dissapeared after entering password.

[Bashing-om]

shady2; Well.

Can you boot Lxle to a terminal ?
Post the out put of terminal commands - between code tags - :

sudo fdisk -lu ##that is with a lower case "L"##
sudo parted -l
sudo parted /dev/sda unit s print
lsblk -f

code tag tutorial:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...8#post12776168

This shows us what we are working with. We can restore the linux boot loader, grub, however if the Windows' boot loader is corrupted, Will have to have a Window's repair disk to effect the repair.

We will see

what tale is told

[shady2]

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 29075759 14537848+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 29077502 78155279 24538889 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 63549423 77898239 7174408+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 77898303 78155279 128488+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda7 29077504 54245375 12583936 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 54247424 63537151 4644864 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 2000 MB, 2000683008 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243 cylinders, total 3907584 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006fb3b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 3907583 1953760+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
go@go-PM800-8237:~$



this is result of (f disk -l)

I just noticed on the boot screen where you can choose your option, down at the bottom there appears to be options for editing also. What about changing the default from there.
Also have not figured out how to save when using terminal. Does not recognize done or save!!!

[shady2]

just did commands you posted. sudo fdisk -lu ##that is with a lower case "L"##sudo parted -l
sudo parted /dev/sda unit s print lsblk -f .

Ok. copy paste is messy.
Cant get results to paste in. I run the commands and copy turns it blue. then paste into something and error. Under flag is indicated boot is in the windows partition. Is this possible? I thought the Lxle would have taken it over.
Now I see that the options at boot logon screen are there for emergency only.

Someone at the LXLE forum say "boot default can't be edited". Could it be a flaw in that distro ?
I have done a lot of reading on this to figure it out. I am thinking I followed the steps correctly and now GRUB DEFAULT=4 (win xp) and it does not work. Boots to LXLE.

[oldfred]

Each of Bashing-om's commands is a separate terminal command. And anything after a # is a comment so you do not need to copy or write that into terminal.
Or just this as one line in terminal, and each of the other comands
sudo fdisk -l

and we often add comment as the -l may look like number one 1, I -Cap eye, depending on fonts used.

[shady2]

I am only getting the part about [QUOTE] (anything after a # is a comment so you do not need to copy or write that into terminal.) The rest ??
I am really not understanding why we insist on using commands for everything and why there is not aprogram to simplify this.
Someone at the LXLE forum say "boot default can't be edited". Could it be a flaw in that distro ?
I have done a lot of reading on this to figure it out. I am thinking I followed the steps correctly and now GRUB DEFAULT=4 (win xp) and it does not work. Boots to LXLE.(Keditor?)