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Aaragath
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 Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 1:38 am Post subject: Fixing the MBR so I can use gentoo again |
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Ok, I've installed gentoo before, and the partitions are still on this computer, however, I had to reinstall windows so it re-wrote the MBR so grub is no longer what loads the OS, and therefore I have no way to get into my linux paritions. I was wondering if anyone knew if...
A: Gentoo will still work even though I upgraded my motherboard/proc/ram from an AMD 1800+ 512mb DDR pc 2100 RAM with an Epox 8KHA+ mobo (or something like that) to an AMD 3200+ with 1024mb DDR pc 3200 ram and an ASUS A7N8X Mobo
B: If the answer to A is yes, then how do I rewrite either the windows bootloader so that I can load my gentoo paritions or how do I go about re-doing grub (it was a while back that I did this, and I've tried to install gentoo about 7 times, only got it right once =/ ).
Hard drive setup:
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/dev/hda1 = Windows XP
/dev/hda2 = /boot
/dev/hda3 = /
/dev/hda4 = swap
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thnx
-Aaragath
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hardcore
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:30 am Post subject: |
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Ok, I'm guessing that the motherboards are both the same chipset (NFORCE2 w/ athlon-xp). So you should be fine booting up.
Did you happen to make a floppy boot disk? If so it's as easy as:
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grub
root (hd0, 0)
setup (hd0)
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If not, boot the live cd or Knoppix or something similar that has grub on it, and do the above steps.
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Aaragath
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:09 am Post subject: |
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I did that, but when I typed in "Setup (hd0)" it said "error 17: cannot mount partition"
any suggestions? I did the following to get into grub...
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mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot
swapon /dev/hda4
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
grub
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from there I was into grub, is there something else I should have done? |
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L.U.
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I may be wrong here, but should it be ?
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hardcore
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| Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| L.U. wrote: | | I may be wrong here, but should it be ? |
You're correct. My apologies.
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