okay, i have #! installed. well, it totally re-mapped my drives and GRUB went hay-wire. For some reason my bootlist isn't there.
I am trying to find a way to install XP back on so it could use master-boot manger to over take the grub loader. The thing is. The only OS I can access is #!. My DVD drive is recognisable in BIOS but not in #!, probably it really isn't accessible. I am finding a way to install XP back on so it can put the boot manager over. I tried doing the flashdrive way, but I can't due to the fact WINE can't run it.
if anyone has any solutions, great! if not, im probably sol.
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Boot from your Windows Disk hit repair and type fixmbr (you type it in somewhere, I forget where). This should reinstall the MBR and let you boot from Windows (if you have Windows installed and you problem is that you can't get to it).
Otherwise you can just write Windows over the whole partition and start new.
Otherwise you can just write Windows over the whole partition and start new.
QUOTE (redmonke @ Sep 3 2009, 05:58 PM) 
Boot from your Windows Disk hit repair and type fixmbr (you type it in somewhere, I forget where). This should reinstall the MBR and let you boot from Windows (if you have Windows installed and you problem is that you can't get to it).
Otherwise you can just write Windows over the whole partition and start new.
Otherwise you can just write Windows over the whole partition and start new.
Well, doesn't help when I stated my DVD-drive doesn't work.
QUOTE (Zero @ Sep 3 2009, 05:51 PM)
QUOTE (redmonke @ Sep 3 2009, 05:58 PM)
Boot from your Windows Disk hit repair and type fixmbr (you type it in somewhere, I forget where). This should reinstall the MBR and let you boot from Windows (if you have Windows installed and you problem is that you can't get to it).
Otherwise you can just write Windows over the whole partition and start new.
Otherwise you can just write Windows over the whole partition and start new.
Well, doesn't help when I stated my DVD-drive doesn't work.
Why isn't it? If you can access it through the BIOS, it will boot into that instead of what used to be GRUB/MBR.
If it's broke broken, have you tried an external DVD drive?
QUOTE (redmonke @ Sep 3 2009, 11:29 PM)
QUOTE (Zero @ Sep 3 2009, 05:51 PM)
QUOTE (redmonke @ Sep 3 2009, 05:58 PM)
Boot from your Windows Disk hit repair and type fixmbr (you type it in somewhere, I forget where). This should reinstall the MBR and let you boot from Windows (if you have Windows installed and you problem is that you can't get to it).
Otherwise you can just write Windows over the whole partition and start new.
Otherwise you can just write Windows over the whole partition and start new.
Well, doesn't help when I stated my DVD-drive doesn't work.
Why isn't it? If you can access it through the BIOS, it will boot into that instead of what used to be GRUB/MBR.
If it's broke broken, have you tried an external DVD drive?
i tried popping in a cd that has the windows 7 beta iso burned onto it, and just booted into grub instead. i do have 2 cd drives which i might hook up later and burn a xp iso onto a reg. cd and boot into that, and install.
Maybe it was just a bad burn, what speed did you burn it at? All mine failed when i tried it at max, but when i scaled it back down to x8 it worked perfectly well, and was fast enough for me.
QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 4 2009, 03:21 PM)
Maybe it was just a bad burn, what speed did you burn it at? All mine failed when i tried it at max, but when i scaled it back down to x8 it worked perfectly well, and was fast enough for me.
I have no clue, being it on a computer which did not have a burner present except Roxio. Supposedly, around 4x-8x
Sorry, to bump/dp, but I need to update.
Hooked up my DVD drive back up, and it is recognizable through bios, but not through #! (Crunchbang Linux)
No clue why this is happening now..
The burner isn't the software, it's your DVD Drive. Also, you used Roxio for iso burning? Use a dedicated ISO burner next time...
If it's not recognized then it's probably not supported by Linux. Okay, so your problem is this?
-I have both #! and XP installed
-Installing #! has messed up my boot list
-I want to get back into XP but the flash drive doesn't do it and i can't boot from a disk
Have you checked your boot device order? Did you partition the #! install correctly? What i would do is completely format the drive and start again, backing up any data you might need and deleting the partitions. But since you supposedly can't use your disk drive for whatever reason you would need to either use floppy's, use a USB - SATA/IDE adapter of some sort or get another one, or borrow an external one (disk drive).
If it's not recognized then it's probably not supported by Linux. Okay, so your problem is this?
-I have both #! and XP installed
-Installing #! has messed up my boot list
-I want to get back into XP but the flash drive doesn't do it and i can't boot from a disk
Have you checked your boot device order? Did you partition the #! install correctly? What i would do is completely format the drive and start again, backing up any data you might need and deleting the partitions. But since you supposedly can't use your disk drive for whatever reason you would need to either use floppy's, use a USB - SATA/IDE adapter of some sort or get another one, or borrow an external one (disk drive).
I had #! and 7. I had Ubuntu and 7 installed, installed #! over the ubuntu drive.
I have 2 disk hooked up through IDE, now 1 which is my #! disk. The main drive which hosts 7 is my SATA drive. It's either the mapping was muffed up somehow, as someone from #crunchbang said.
I have 2 disk hooked up through IDE, now 1 which is my #! disk. The main drive which hosts 7 is my SATA drive. It's either the mapping was muffed up somehow, as someone from #crunchbang said.
So they're two seperate drives? Not partitions? Have you tried simply unplugging the #! drive? Would that override GRUB?
Also, you installed it over? Shouldn't you have formatted it first?
And how are you finding #!? Not counting these circumstances, but i'm considering using it as well as Mint...
Also, you installed it over? Shouldn't you have formatted it first?
And how are you finding #!? Not counting these circumstances, but i'm considering using it as well as Mint...
QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 5 2009, 03:47 PM)
So they're two seperate drives? Not partitions? Have you tried simply unplugging the #! drive? Would that override GRUB?
Also, you installed it over? Shouldn't you have formatted it first?
And how are you finding #!? Not counting these circumstances, but i'm considering using it as well as Mint...
Also, you installed it over? Shouldn't you have formatted it first?
And how are you finding #!? Not counting these circumstances, but i'm considering using it as well as Mint...
I tried that before did not override GRUB at all. I might another computer burn XP then see if I can boot it through the DVD drive later. #! is ubuntu with openbox.
Also, it should be supported BY linux, when I had ubuntu installed a while ago it said it was present.
With openbox and other cuts to make it more lightweight, yes i know. But every distribution and derivative is different...
I don't think there's anything wrong with the DVD Drive personally... also, if the drive is unplugged then it can't possibly boot #!, so what happens?
I don't think there's anything wrong with the DVD Drive personally... also, if the drive is unplugged then it can't possibly boot #!, so what happens?
QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 5 2009, 03:54 PM)
With openbox and other cuts to make it more lightweight, yes i know. But every distribution and derivative is different...
I don't think there's anything wrong with the DVD Drive personally... also, if the drive is unplugged then it can't possibly boot #!, so what happens?
I don't think there's anything wrong with the DVD Drive personally... also, if the drive is unplugged then it can't possibly boot #!, so what happens?
boots into grub, that's it. i can not do anything from there except just look at grub, honestly. i did sudo lshw -class disk -class storage, and it didn't show up. pretty weird.
So does the Windows drive show up anywhere along the line? In the Bios, in GRUB etc... your best bet is probably to do a format. But the where and how is the problem... also if you have any data you want to back up.
QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 5 2009, 03:59 PM)
So does the Windows drive show up anywhere along the line? In the Bios, in GRUB etc... your best bet is probably to do a format. But the where and how is the problem... also if you have any data you want to back up.
It does show up through PCManFM, but i have to open it as root to look through it.
If I boot up through the Windows drive it will go back into GRUB. Format the #! drive, you say?
Well... if it doesn't work when it's unplugged i don't see how formatting it would help. Where is GRUB installed? That would be where i would format. And since that's probably the windows drive i suggest you back up your data somewhow, but how i'm not quite sure...
QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 5 2009, 04:08 PM)
Well... if it doesn't work when it's unplugged i don't see how formatting it would help. Where is GRUB installed? That would be where i would format. And since that's probably the windows drive i suggest you back up your data somewhow, but how i'm not quite sure...
There is a partition which has #! installed on main drive, which I need to format. So I might do that.
I will check.
Woa, hold on. I thought you said it was on a seperate drive. You also said you unplugged it... then you would have unplugged the whole hard drive? Where is GRUB installed?
QUOTE (Caboose @ Sep 5 2009, 04:16 PM)
Woa, hold on. I thought you said it was on a seperate drive. You also said you unplugged it... then you would have unplugged the whole hard drive? Where is GRUB installed?
As of right now. I have no clue. I just found out my old Crunchbang installation is on the master drive, where it is a small partition, which I am going to format. So there and on the IDE 100gb drive.
if you want to know the sudo lshw -class disk -class storage:
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*-ide:0
description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 IDE
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: d
bus info: pci@0000:00:0d.0
logical name: scsi0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=pata_amd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=pata_amd
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: IC35L090AVV207-0
vendor: Hitachi
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: V23O
serial: VNVC03G3DXJZ0T
size: 86GiB (92GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=9eb89eb8
*-ide:1
description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: e
bus info: pci@0000:00:0e.0
logical name: scsi2
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm msi ht bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=sata_nv
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: SAMSUNG SP2504C
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: VT10
serial: S09QJ1HLC63109
size: 232GiB (250GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=1549f232
*-ide:2
description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: f
bus info: pci@0000:00:0f.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm msi ht bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=sata_nv
*-scsi
physical id: 5
bus info: usb@2:8
logical name: scsi6
capabilities: emulated scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-disk:0
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdc
*-disk:1
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.1
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.1
logical name: /dev/sdd
*-disk:2
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.2
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.2
logical name: /dev/sde
*-disk:3
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.3
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.3
logical name: /dev/sdf
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description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 IDE
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: d
bus info: pci@0000:00:0d.0
logical name: scsi0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=pata_amd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=pata_amd
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: IC35L090AVV207-0
vendor: Hitachi
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: V23O
serial: VNVC03G3DXJZ0T
size: 86GiB (92GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=9eb89eb8
*-ide:1
description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: e
bus info: pci@0000:00:0e.0
logical name: scsi2
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm msi ht bus_master cap_list emulated
configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=sata_nv
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: SAMSUNG SP2504C
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
version: VT10
serial: S09QJ1HLC63109
size: 232GiB (250GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=1549f232
*-ide:2
description: IDE interface
product: MCP51 Serial ATA Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: f
bus info: pci@0000:00:0f.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide pm msi ht bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=sata_nv
*-scsi
physical id: 5
bus info: usb@2:8
logical name: scsi6
capabilities: emulated scsi-host
configuration: driver=usb-storage
*-disk:0
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdc
*-disk:1
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.1
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.1
logical name: /dev/sdd
*-disk:2
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.2
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.2
logical name: /dev/sde
*-disk:3
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.3
bus info: scsi@6:0.0.3
logical name: /dev/sdf
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It should be showing a H20-L DVD-Drive with a disc in it, but its not. This is really annoying me now.
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Could you explain how real quick so I know how in the future? 
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