SkankinRatFink
March 19th, 2009, 08:52 PM
Hello there. So here's the skinny ... on my new computer I installed Windows XP, then Ubuntu Studio. Obviously the GRUB worked just great at the time.
Then I had problems with XP and had to reinstall. You all know the deal-- Windows gets greedy and overwrites the MBR so the GRUB is gone.
I looked up this guide on dual-booting which assumes Linux was installed first and XP second. With the situation I'm now in, this is effectively the case. The fifth page (http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_instal led_first.htm?page=5) describes how to restore the GRUB. I ran a live CD (Linux Mint) and followed their steps exactly. At the grub command line, the command setup (hd0) gives me the following error. Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition. I don't know how to fix this! hd0 is the correct hard drive--- when I type in root (hd0,0) or root (hd0,1) it correctly describes the partitions on the hard drive.
Here is how my hard drive is partitioned, if it helps:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2ewf9tl.png
sda1 is my Windows XP partition.
sda2 is my Linux (Ubuntu Studio) partition.
sda3 is the partition containing the logical partitions ....
- sda5 is Linux swap space.
- sda6 is my storage partition for all my files (NTFS format)
Please help! I'd like to get Ubuntu Studio back as a boot option. Thanks a lot.
Then I had problems with XP and had to reinstall. You all know the deal-- Windows gets greedy and overwrites the MBR so the GRUB is gone.
I looked up this guide on dual-booting which assumes Linux was installed first and XP second. With the situation I'm now in, this is effectively the case. The fifth page (http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_instal led_first.htm?page=5) describes how to restore the GRUB. I ran a live CD (Linux Mint) and followed their steps exactly. At the grub command line, the command setup (hd0) gives me the following error. Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition. I don't know how to fix this! hd0 is the correct hard drive--- when I type in root (hd0,0) or root (hd0,1) it correctly describes the partitions on the hard drive.
Here is how my hard drive is partitioned, if it helps:
http://i41.tinypic.com/2ewf9tl.png
sda1 is my Windows XP partition.
sda2 is my Linux (Ubuntu Studio) partition.
sda3 is the partition containing the logical partitions ....
- sda5 is Linux swap space.
- sda6 is my storage partition for all my files (NTFS format)
Please help! I'd like to get Ubuntu Studio back as a boot option. Thanks a lot.