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you should have been able to boot windows and possibly linux from the
grub>
prompt.
Code:
grub> rootnoverify (hd0,4)
grub> chainloader +1
grub> boot
should have booted your windows install. i know you changed motherboard, but if they were both x86 cpu's (on the old and new board) then windows should have booted and it should have then installed drivers for whatever it found. i had to do this before, and i can't remember the exact state of the OS after doing this, but it worked well enough for me to get some data off. if i remember correctly, the default default kernel install booted using a similar procedeure after the board change, probably 'cause they were similar chips and that kernel had practically everything compiled as a module.
Code:
grub> root (hd0,6)
grub> kernel /linuxkernel-2.6.9 ro root=LABEL=/ nopcmcia [ "more options if necessary" ]
grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.9.img
grub> boot
i'm sure the above would boot linux for you. obviously you need to change (hd0, 6) with the correct values for your setup.
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Hmm. That might work except that it is not allowing me to type anything. All it has is "GRUB" all in caps. Any suggestions to get it to type.
By the way, it is the same processor that was in my other motherboard.
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right. that's not good.
you do have Knoppix! you could boot this and reinstall grub from there, sorta like what undertaker was saying a few posts back, with something like
Code:
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2;
grub-install --no-floppy --root-directory=/mnt/hda2 --recheck /dev/hda;
then it should work, or at least give you a grub shell.
have you checked and double checked all jumper settings and cables etc.etc. ?
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yeah, the jumper and cables are all working. Ill try that last thing you said right now.
Do I type that code in a console after knoppix has loaded or when? Sorry, im pretty new to this.
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Alright, i just did that and it is saying the format of install_device not recognized.
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apology accepted :) next time though, google maybe?
if you weren't new to this you wouldn't be talking here would you? all this has already been said, but with other people, probably many times. if you were not new to this, you would have found what you need to know already.
you should type this in the knoppix root console. and you should also have your disk mounted read/write.
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Ok, my bad. I have something different now when i restart my computer. It said GRUB loading, please wait, then it says Error 17. I am googling it but I am not finding what i need, just other people having the same problem.
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you've probably already found these then?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=157293
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=120802
i haven't read them to be honest.
remember, you can use windows also. booting to the ``recovery console'' should allow you to fix the MBR, then you could edit the boot.ini to allow the NTLoader to boot Linux. just a thought.
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The thing is I can't get to anything in windows. The only way to get to any of my system files is through knoppix. I will read those threads right now.
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you get the recovery console by booting off the windows cd! you don't load it from windows.
http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/I...leID=8957&pg=2
check out the fixmbr and fixboot commands. this should get you into windows, but only windows. if you want to use the NTLoader to boot windows and linux, you'll have to edit the boot.ini and do some other stuff. but atleast you'll get into windows.
anybody else know about grubs inner workings? like, why the system got like that after a motherboard install? why that error message comes up (why does grub not recognise the partition - something to do with modules or corrupt partition tables?
