help! Installed linux on a computer with windows and now windows doesnt work!
December 07, 2003 06:50 PM
I installed linux on another computer with windows and it does not boot, although linux does. Why is this? I think the windows partition is primary and the linux boot partition is primary, but I do not think this would make a difference. It just makes a blinking curser and says booting windows
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December 07, 2003 09:12 PM
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December 07, 2003 09:18 PM
You didn''t install Linux on the same partition as Windows did you?
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December 08, 2003 01:33 AM
If you have them on different partitions make sure that your boot loaders ".conf" file has an entry for your Windows installation, and has the actual path to where windows is on your hard disk, if you aren''t quite sure, you can run fdisk and see where it is.
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December 08, 2003 10:49 AM
If you did a standard Windows installation and then added Linux on the end of the hard disk, then Windows is probably on
Just make sure you have a
I don''t know what the syntax would be for GRUB, as I''ve only ever used lilo.
hda1. If this is the case, then adding the following to the end of lilo.conf should work:other=/dev/hda1 label=Windows
Just make sure you have a
prompt line at the top.I don''t know what the syntax would be for GRUB, as I''ve only ever used lilo.
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December 08, 2003 12:37 PM
If you are using Grub, add the following to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html
title Windowsrootnoverify (hd0,0)chainloader +1 http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html
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December 08, 2003 12:51 PM
(Go away troll)
Please tell us that you didnt install Linux on the SAME partition as Windows. Assuming you didnt your problem is fixable..
Jon
Please tell us that you didnt install Linux on the SAME partition as Windows. Assuming you didnt your problem is fixable..
Jon
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December 08, 2003 05:19 PM
quote: Original post by jonpolly99At whom is this remark addressed?
(Go away troll)
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December 08, 2003 05:28 PM
quote: Original post by Useless Hacker
At whom is this remark addressed?
An (not quite) anonymous post by Torn Space that I deleted (thought about leaving it because it had been referenced in another post, but I tried). Now, back to ignoring no-longer-existing troll posts...
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