Re: [Bug-grub] Oh dear....

[Jason Thomas]

Sounds like you had a menu come up when grub started, and the file that
contained your menu was on the linux partition, with some reading
through the grub manual, and maybe search through the mailing list
archives you'll be able to boot by hand the OS's you have from the grub
shell.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:36:14AM +0100, Matthew Haywood wrote:
> I've read the GRUB FAQ's but can't figure out how to get my PC to boot up
> anymore.....
> Not really a bug - just a stupid user.
> I had many OS's on my machine : Linux, Win98, Win2000 Advanced Server and
> was happily using GRUB to select which one i booted to. All was well until
> i wanted some extra disk space to install Microsofts .NET development tools
> Beta 1 and used win2000 disk manager to format the partition i had linux on
> (stupid i know, but it was essential that i installed .NET for some work i
> was doing at the time and the only partition i didn't have work stuff on
> was the Linux one). Win2000 told me i needed to change the Boot.ini file to
> point to partition 3 not 4 for win2000. I couldn't for the life of me find
> the fricking file so i rebooted and used the win98 boot disk i had to edit
> the boot.ini file as needed.
> 
> The problem is: when i start my machine now it just boots to a stage where
> the GRUB command is. (ie grub> ) - i looked through the help details but
> can't figure out what's gone wrong - do i have to change something in a
> grub file to represent my partition change?
> 
> I have 2 hard drives:
> 1:   3.2GB - win98
> 2:   10GB - split into 5 2GB partitions comprising FAT32, NTFS now (I
> previously had a 50MB swap for Linux and 1.95GB for Linux itself but this
> is now NTFS (arghhhh!).
> 
> Any ideas?????
> I have a bunch of work related stuff under win98 on my C: drive that i
> can't afford to use...
> I definately dont want to get rid of GRUB as it's dead useful - how can i
> get it back to normal working order...... i long for that yellow and blue
> selection screen to appear again!
> 
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