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Posted: Aug. 15 2005,16:07 |
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So here's the deal:
IBM T21 Laptop w/ 20Gb HD, 256Mb RAM, 800Hmz. Dual boot: XP/RedHat
RedHat sucks, so I deleted the files and reformatted the partition to FAT32. Had RedHat for many months, but see no benefit in using it. It is slower than XP, ( !! ), and hardware detection is horrible. So, to the trash bin it went. Well, after reformatting the RedHat partition, i rebooted. Guess what? GRUB didn't know what to do. Didn't even have a prompt to enter boot params. Great. Couldn't boot into XP. I was supposed to be working so I needed to get this thing going, as in now. What did I do? I whipped out my DSL 1.4 LiveCD, slapped it in and rebooted. With DSL running on the T21 then, I chose to "Frugal GRUB Install" via the "Tools" menu. This was the fastest way I knew of to 'reinstall' GRUB. I just happened to have an ~500Mb linux partition already on the HD. So that is where the frugal went to take up residence. Once done, about 3 or 4 mintues, I rebooted without the DSL LiveCD. Guess what? It worked!!! The DSL Frugal GRUB install put GRUB on the MBR, and listed Windows as a boot option. It works great!
Now, I am quite sure that there is a better, more effecient way of doing this. However, I needed it done now so I could work and this was the only way I knew would work quickly.
So, if anyone cares to explain a better way, I'll listen.
EDIT: Oh yeah, HURRAY for DSL !!!!
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