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On 16/08/11 10:04, Ray Smith wrote:
Hi all. Does anyone use antix or have experience of using it ? It's a small Mepis debian based distro that I liked the look of when running from a live cd so I decided to give it a try by installing to hard disk. Everything seemed to go ok,I selected the root partition,swap etc and opted for the boot loader to be placed at the root of /dev/sda5 same as I had done for Ubuntu. Now when booting it goes straight to the grub promt and I'm at a loss. Sda5 is a logical partition and ubuntu and other distros seem quite happy with the setup. On the MBR is the standard windows boot loader with an entry to boot Win7 or linux. When I had Ubuntu installed and placed grub on sda5 the windows boot loader just called grub and it loaded in the usual way. So any ideas please ? I did use the option to install initrd (I think) as this was recommended by the antix installer. Ray
You might have got something wrong in the (windows) boot menu.Don't use antiX myself but have read a little, it's popular with "minimalist" users.
It uses grub-legacy (which I still use on Debian Squeeze and Wheezy as I find it easier to work with than grub2)
Try at the grub prompt: root (hd0,4) chainloader +1 boot If it doesn't boot try reinstalling grub(-legacy) to PBR from the prompt: (first make sure it's really sda6 and initrd.img exists) find /vmlinuz find /initrd.img (now reinstall it to PBR) root (hd0,4) setup (hd0,4)You should also be able to get a grub prompt from any live-cd that uses grub-legacy and chainload it similarly
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