Re: Bit of a problem

2013-10-22 Thread Roger
I had something like this happen to me a few years ago, though obviously it was not with current distros. As I remember, I booted from a Fedora live CD and one of the options was to re-do the MBR. I did, and it worked fine. See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Install

Re: Bit of a problem

2013-10-22 Thread Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus
Well, multiple boot machine is something very nice but we must be careful with all we do when we're installing the OSs. There is a long time I don't install Fedora, but ubuntu can specify the boot partition in the installation interface it uses now. I think Fedora also give us a lot of facilities.

Re: Bit of a problem

2013-10-22 Thread Bill Oliver
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Bill Oliver wrote: I had something like this happen to me a few years ago, though obviously it was not with current distros. As I remember, I booted from a Fedora live CD and one of the options was to re-do the MBR. I did, and it worked fine. See: https://docs.fedorap

Re: Bit of a problem

2013-10-22 Thread Bill Oliver
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Roger wrote: I have a HD with 2 partitions. Ubuntu 13.04 on one, primary boot is through ubuntu grub and Fedora 19 on partition 2 which I use all the time. Ubuntu13.04 ran into a problem yesterday during software update, it lost the internet connection and errors out with

Re: Bit of a problem

2013-10-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/22/2013 03:40 PM, Roger wrote: Ubutnu 13.04 has problem for me, I have run all the cleanups and tests and run only the minimum of apps and there are no errors reported, but it takes >30 seconds to start a terminal and another 50 seconds before the prompt appears. Have you checked on the

Re: Bit of a problem

2013-10-22 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Roger : I have a HD with 2 partitions. Ubuntu 13.04 on one, primary boot is through ubuntu grub and Fedora 19 on partition 2 which I use all the time. Ubuntu13.04 ran into a problem yesterday during software update, it lost the internet connection and errors out with a dialog to s

Bit of a problem

2013-10-22 Thread Roger
I have a HD with 2 partitions. Ubuntu 13.04 on one, primary boot is through ubuntu grub and Fedora 19 on partition 2 which I use all the time. Ubuntu13.04 ran into a problem yesterday during software update, it lost the internet connection and errors out with a dialog to say internet connectio

Re: Bit of a problem with FireFox in Fedora 16

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/07/2012 11:30 PM, Roger wrote: > Using my Fedora 16 on a home installation as a development system. > > I have 2 sites on VPS remote server, one for dev and one as a live site > both using Drupal 7 fully updated. Developing on the dev site, usin

Bit of a problem with FireFox in Fedora 16

2012-10-07 Thread Roger
Using my Fedora 16 on a home installation as a development system. I have 2 sites on VPS remote server, one for dev and one as a live site both using Drupal 7 fully updated. Developing on the dev site, using Drupal 7 firefox locks up for about 3 minutes with one of my CPU's running at 98% with

A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread JB
Gene Heskett gmail.com> writes: > > > > ===> > > > > > > > title Windows XP > > > > rootnoverify (hd1,1) > > > > makeactive > > > > chainloader +1 > > > > > > ===> > > > Will this same sequence work with a linux install that uses grub 2? > > > http://grub.enbug

Re: A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 02:25:52 pm JB did opine: > Gene Heskett gmail.com> writes: > > On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:49:34 am JB did opine: > > > Dick Roark gmail.com> writes: > > > > root (hd1,2) > > > > makeactive > > > > chainloader +1 > > > > > > Hi, > > > please edit file > > > > > >

A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread JB
Gene Heskett gmail.com> writes: > > On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:49:34 am JB did opine: > > > Dick Roark gmail.com> writes: > > > root (hd1,2) > > > makeactive > > > chainloader +1 > > > > Hi, > > please edit file > > # vi /etc/grub.conf > > and make sure that your Windows section reads li

Re: A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday, July 17, 2010 10:49:34 am JB did opine: > Dick Roark gmail.com> writes: > > root (hd1,2) > > makeactive > > chainloader +1 > > Hi, > please edit file > # vi /etc/grub.conf > and make sure that your Windows section reads like ===> > title Windows XP > rootnoverify

A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread JB
Dick Roark gmail.com> writes: > > root (hd1,2) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > Hi, please edit file # vi /etc/grub.conf and make sure that your Windows section reads like title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd1,1) makeactive chainloader +1 File it and reboot. For your info: The rootnoverify optio

Re: A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread JD
On 07/17/2010 04:00 AM, Dick Roark wrote: > I have two disks, one contains Fedora 12 and the other contains > Windows XP. Both boot and run individually in the same computer (by > swapping cables). I am trying to set up a dual boot using GRUB but > I'm having some problems. Here is my grub.c

Re: A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 19:00 +0800, Dick Roark wrote: > title Windows XP > > root (hd1,2) [...] > /dev/sdb2 * 26 60802 488179650 7 HPFS/NTFS Looks like you have a "start count from 0 or 1" problem. fdisk starts with 1, grub starts with 0. So you need: root(hd1,1) ...in order to boot off s

A bit of a problem with a Linux/XP dual boot setup...

2010-07-17 Thread Dick Roark
I have two disks, one contains Fedora 12 and the other contains Windows XP. Both boot and run individually in the same computer (by swapping cables). I am trying to set up a dual boot using GRUB but I'm having some problems. Here is my grub.conf file: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Not