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Booting Progeny Debian

  • 21-11-2001 6:50pm
    #1
    Patrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 197 ✭✭


    After installing Progeny Debian it setup grub itself. When I rebooted all that was listed was progeny. I also have WinXP on this box. Instead of setting up grub to let me boot into XP aswell I booted with a windows disk and did an 'fdisk /mbr' cos I needed to get back to windows quick for something. I thought like with other distros I could boot with the 'rescue root' command on a debian cd. I have tried this I eventually get to a command prompt but it can't load some module that everything seems to depend on. Even if I could just reactive grub with the config that's already be there it would be enough for me to get into progeny properly and then config it for windows aswell. Any ideas on how to do this?


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  • #2
    Baud
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Baud


    Patrick,
    still having this problem?

    you should be able to do something like:
    rescue noinitrd root=<root partition> 1
    to boot to single user mode

    and then run
    grub-install /dev/hda

    to get windows to boot in grub, add these lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst

    Title Windows
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

    if winXP isn't on /dev/hda1, then change the (hd0,0) to whatever you need (it's zero based, so ,0 is the first partition, ,1 is the second, etc)


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