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Major problems with GRUB - cannot boot anything!
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redandwhitestripes |
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Major problems with GRUB - cannot boot anything! |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:28:41 -0800 (PST) |
Hi everyone,
I'm having a nightmare and hoping someone can wake me up out of it:
I'll try to be as concise as possible. My CD drive has died, so I installed
Damn Small Linux via unetbootin. My PC cannot boot from USB and my floppy
drive is also dead. I thought DSL would add a grub entry to my existing list
but instead it wrote a brand new one to the MBR.
Now I cannot access my other distros! I tried to copy over my old list and
edit it into the new one but when I rebooted, GRUB told me "setup signature
not detected" and froze. The DSL entry still boots OK.
I tried to do a restore of the old grub list via the terminal but I got a
message "error parsing numbers" or something similar. I may have been doing
the wrong thing as I'm a total Linux newbie.
I tried to install unetbootin again in my DSL partition but I got a message
saying certain files were unavailable. It looked like some dependencies were
absent but I have no idea how to get them.
To summarize, I want my other distros back on the bootloader but I don't
know how to get them!
I could try to manually edit the grub list but since it refused my paste
from the old grub list, how would I know what to type?!
I do have a second computer and a LAN cable if that could help in any way.
As you can see I'm in a fix and any help would be very, very appreciated.
Here are the entries on my OLD bootloader:
# For booting SliTaz from : /dev/hda7
#
title SliTaz GNU/Linux (cooking) (Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-slitaz)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-slitaz root=/dev/hda7
# End GRUB global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Boxpup
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# LXDE Pup
title LXDE Pup
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Vector Linux Lite
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
And this is for my NEW file:
# This sets the default entry to boot.
# Remember that GRUB counts from 0, so 1 is the second entry.
default 0
# This sets the length of time in seconds that grub will wait for the user
to select an OS
# before it boots the default on. I reccommend at least 15 seconds.
timeout 15
# Enter the entry for DSL here. Something like this.
title DSL
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma
noscsi frugal
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/hda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=normal
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
title Linux (on /dev/sda4)
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 ro vga=normal
title DSL fb800x600
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=788 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi
frugal
title DSL fb1024x768
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=791 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi
frugal
title DSL fb1280x1024
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=794 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi
frugal
#title DSL with toram, mydsl, restore, hostname, and passwords
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi
frugal dma toram mydsl=hda5 restore=hda5 host=DSL1 secure
#title DSL with XFree86
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi
frugal dma toram mydsl=hda5/xfree restore=hda6 host=DSL1 secure
#title DSL with mydsl, restore, persistentancy, hostname, and passwords
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi
frugal dma toram mydsl=hda3 restore=hda3 home=hda3 opt=hda3 host=DSL1 secure
#title DSL Runlevel 2
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi
nodma frugal 2 base norestore
#title DSL Check filesystem(s)
#kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda8 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi
nodma frugal 2 toram legacy base norestore checkfs
#title Windows
#root (hd0,0)
#chainloader +1
#makeactive
#boot
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