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Grub4Dos problems (SOLVED)
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Karl Godt
 Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2675 Location: Kiel,Germany |
update : Probably it would reach sda5 but for sda5 there is missing a proper menu.lst entry . grub4dos is shinobar's special babe and i have not even one real idea about the windows boot system . I know there is a boot.ini that could act like menu.lst , but for the syntax i have seen some examples on the net that i could not interpret . what this
is i really don't know . I would try to boot the second Windows partition with something like
Basta BUT because of the drive numbering chaos it could be also
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bigpup
 Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 3687 Location: Charleston S.C. USA |
VictorVictor5 are you still there? _________________ I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. Puppy Help 101 An interactive tutorial for Puppy 5.2.5 |
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Karl Godt
Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2675 Location: Kiel,Germany |
For the boundaries i want to add : INT 13H :: 528 Mbytes (504 MiB), assuming 512 byte sectors. INT 13H Large or Bit Shift Translation :: 8.4 Gbytes (7.8 GiB). ATA-1 standard :: 128 GiB (≈137.4 GB), assuming 512 byte sectors ATA-6 standard :: 128 PiB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_block_addressing It might be a good idea to try at least --force-lba options while installing bootloaders. |
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rhadon
 Joined: 27 Mar 2008 Posts: 1228 Location: Germany |
About missing sda3 and sda4: AFAIK it's OK. Viktor has 1 primary partition (sda1) and one extended (sda2). Logical partitions are allways starting with no.5. Next primary partitions would be sda3 and sda4. About copy and paste: IIRC victor uses a touchpad. In this case there's no mddle button or mouse wheel. Pressing left and right touchpad button together does the trick. HTH Rolf _________________ Ich verwende "frugal", und das ist gut so. 
Raspberry Pi without Puppy? No, thanks. |
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bigpup
Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 3687 Location: Charleston S.C. USA |
I totally missed seeing that sda2 was an extended partition. Numbering makes since now that that fact is noted. So use to making sda4 extended partition. _________________ I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. Puppy Help 101 An interactive tutorial for Puppy 5.2.5 |
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VictorVictor5
Joined: 23 May 2012 Posts: 127 |
Hey guys I am still here - I just had a quick deadline and now off to a meeting, but I will post back. Sorry for the late reply. Thanks! VV5 |
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VictorVictor5
Joined: 23 May 2012 Posts: 127 |
Hey everybody, I'm still trying to cut/paste from console, but it won't let me. Is there anything else you guys would like me to try? Thanks! VV5 |
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bigpup
Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 3687 Location: Charleston S.C. USA |
The normal thing to do, when a new install of Puppy, will not boot, is to: Delete install. (If doing a full install, I would reformat the partition, just to eliminate possible file fragments hanging on. Get back to clean partition) Reinstall Puppy. Rerun the bootloader config program for the bootloader you use. This eleminates one possible cause of problems. Just a bad install. About Windows: With Grub4dos, it puts more entries in the menu, for Windows, than you need. This one is there by default (even if Windows is not on computer). Not sure if it ever works.
_________________ I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. Puppy Help 101 An interactive tutorial for Puppy 5.2.5 Last edited by bigpup on Thu 16 Aug 2012, 14:59; edited 1 time in total |
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VictorVictor5
Joined: 23 May 2012 Posts: 127 |
Ok, I will reinstall and keep all of you posted. Thanks so far! VV4 |
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VictorVictor5
Joined: 23 May 2012 Posts: 127 |
Quick question for all for all of you. Is there anything special I need to do for the uninstall? Do I have to uninstall Grub4Dos as well? Thanks! VV5 |
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Karl Godt
Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2675 Location: Kiel,Germany |
Grub seems to sit in the MBR . Of course you should dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1 count=512 to zero the MBR and throw that old machine out of the window.Seriously grub4dos are 2 files (+MBR) : menu.lst and some *gldr* file on toplevel of sda1/C:\ which is it's Stage-2 in relation to LegacyGrub . google is a friend : http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/menu.htm http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/boot.htm
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VictorVictor5
Joined: 23 May 2012 Posts: 127 |
So I uninstalled everything and deleted the menu.lst and grldr files, and not I can't boot to anything, not even WindowsXP. Do I have to reinstall Windows again as well? |
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Karl Godt
Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2675 Location: Kiel,Germany |
The Bootloader. EasyBCD. http://www.chip.de/downloads/EasyBCD_23603661.html But probably grub4dos has made a mbr.12345 backup . That you can
and would probably restore the old original MBR. |
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rcrsn51
 Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7743 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
No. Boot off your Puppy CD, open a console and type
That will restore the MBR so Windows will boot again. |
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VictorVictor5
Joined: 23 May 2012 Posts: 127 |
Ok, uninstalled Puppy and reinstalled - still same issue with it not being able to boot into puppy from Grub4Dos. Any other ideas? |
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