Fedora :: Uninstall Grub And Install Grub2 On Fedora 14?
Feb 6, 2011why is grub2 not in fedora 14 ? Is there any way to uninstall grub and install grub2 on fedora 14 ?
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Ubuntu :: Uninstall GRUB2 At Grub Rescue Prompt
Oct 24, 2010i am a newbie to linux and i am stuck at the GRUB rescue prompt at the startup.i have dual boot windows and Ubntu 10.04.I want to remove GRUB2 from Harddrive itself.can u suggest ant command on GRUUB recue prompt ?
View 5 Replies View RelatedFedora :: Chainloading Grub2 From Grub 1?
Feb 1, 2011A little background: my primary install is fedora 9, I'm migrating to 14, and I need to change some partitioning (but not the F9, which is first on the drive). Because I installed a newer ubuntu a while back, I've been using ubuntu's grub2. That ubuntu partition needs to be moved, so I re-installed the grub 1 from F9 onto the MBR so the F9 doesn't depend on anything else.
This is when I learned grub 1 does not support booting ext4 partitions (which ubuntu uses). However, fedora claims that you can install grub 2 and have it chainloaded from grub 1, and in fact yum install adds a line to your existing grub 1 config to do so. That seemed like a nice solution since then all I would have to do is copy some grub.conf from the ubuntu partition into the F9 grub 2.
However, chainloading grub 2 does not seem to work very well. At all. I get to the grub 2 menu, but any option I choose -- including loading the F9 partition on which both grub 1 and 2 are installed, using the default config created by the installer, leads to an "unrecognized command" error, as if grub 1 was crapping out on a grub 2 config.
Anyone else had this problem? Better yet, has anyone done this successfully with any fedora version? I can backup ubuntu and copy it back in after I re-work my partitions, but while I'd prefer not to have to use grub 2 on the MBR, I'd still like to be able to boot ubuntu.
Fedora Installation :: Install 10 Uninstall Ubuntu
Jan 14, 2009I want to uninstall Ubuntu and then install F10 but I cannot get any info on how to achieve the former.
View 4 Replies View RelatedFedora :: How To Install And Use Grub2
May 8, 2011The following outlines how to install and use Grub2 in Fedora. It will be an ongoing How-To as more of the tools involved are added upstream
Small History... I came over from Canonical/Ubuntu and was surprised to see that Grub2 was not that widely used or even developed..
I found this blog posting from Hedayat Vatankhah at his blogsite and this is what I did to replace the Ubuntu Grub2 with Fedora grub2 with the os-prober that Hedayat ported to Fedora and installing grub2
1: Install os-prober
Code:
sudo yum install os-prober
2: Install grub2 using yum
Code:
sudo yum install grub2
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Note I am using Fedora 15 .. this should work with any Fedora release that supports grub2
I want to stress again that this is an ongoing project and will be updated as the changes happen
I got grub2 1.99~rc2 up and functioning perfectly with os-prober
If you compile grub2 1.99~rc2 you must create /usr/local/etc/default and then copy the file grub from /etc/default to /usr/local/etc/default
This will then read and parse the grub file information
Fedora :: Uninstall 81 Packages To Install Qt-devel Into KDE4.x?
May 23, 2011I was trying to compile a new (stable) kernel and got an error when I tried "make xconfi packages and uninstalling 81 packages (will attatch pix once home). I'm using Fedora14 with KDE packages and uninstalling 81 packages. I'm using Fedora14 with KDE so much stuff to get qt-devel?
View 4 Replies View RelatedFedora :: Install Grub2 On LVM2 ?
Nov 26, 2010I have a working Fedora14 system. /boot is on sda1.
Here is my system:
Code:
I would like to install Grub2 to have /boot in LVM2 as well. Is there a guide for it or can someone help me with this task?
Debian Installation :: Can I Uninstall GRUB-2 And Install Legacy
Apr 5, 2011I am new to Debian. I have installed Debian on sda1, grub installed in /dev/sda . /dev/sda6 is SalixOs.
My fdisk -l report is this code...
I boot from sda, Debian recognised windows Xp installed on sdb1, but when I choose to boot from it, it simply reboots.
What could be the reason ? I am a newbie, please be patient with me.
I have solve the problem by installing EasyBCD in WinXp and added the Linux entries to it and booting from sdb.(changed in BIOS)
So, is it possible to uninstall GRUB-2 and install GRUB-Legacy ? Would it work on Debian-Squeeze ?
Installation :: Uninstall Fedora From A Partition And Install Ubuntu In It's Place?
Jun 3, 2011About 3-4 years ago I installed a new harddrive in my computer (XP Pro) and moved the old system disk drive to be secondary. I installed Grub and partitioned it in half. I installed Fedora on one partition and installed XP on the other. Now I want to keep the XP and replace the Fedora with another Linux like Ubuntu or Mint to try them out. I am not sure what I need to do to replace the Fedora and keep XP. Could someone give some idea how this would be done? I don't remember exactly how I did it at the time or what tools I had used or what I will need.
View 1 Replies View RelatedRed Hat / Fedora :: Allow Non-root Users To Install/uninstall/configure Softwares?
Jul 1, 2010When I try to start MySQL and httpd as a non-root user, I get error messagesstating that the user does not have permissions to start the services.I have checked the permissions of mysqld and httpd in /etc/init.d .. both of the files have rwxr-xr-x permissions.When I add the line%groupname ALL=(ALL) ALL in /etc/sudoers, I am able to run the services using sudo.How do I allow non-root users to install/uninstall/configure softwares and start/stop services ?I have tried with
SUI=/usr/bin/sudo -i, /bin/su
SOFTWARE=yum
%groupname ALL=(ALL) SOFTWARE, !SUI
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Ubuntu :: Grub2 Doesn't List Fedora, Even Though Upgrade-grub "finds" It?
Jan 21, 2010In general I love Ubuntu Karmic, and think it's the most polished Gnome distro out there, but since installing it on my laptop alongside Fedora I haven't been able to boot into the latter.
I know that I could fix it by adding an entry into the 40_custom file, but wonder if there's a simpler fix.
The command
Quote:
sudo update-grub
actually finds and lists the Fedora Constantine kernel, but it still doesn't appear in the bootloader menu. Before I delve around and break something, does this mean that there's a line commented out in one of the config files?
I'm not going to slag off Grub 2 because I can see that it has clear benefits, especially for power users, and I don't mind change if it brings clear benefits. So long, /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Fedora :: Install Grub2 While Still Being Able To Boot Into Windows Or F13?
Nov 13, 2010I posted recently about some problems with grub2(http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=254100)
I ran grub-install, it installed fine and when I rebooted it worked, only I was presented with a command line with the message that "Minimal command-line editing is still supported etc". I'm dual-booting with Windows and F13 and I couldn't boot into either of them so I had to reinstall F13 and replace grub. How do I install grub2 while still being able to boot into Windows or F13?
Fedora :: Dual Booting - Grub2 To See F15 Or Be Installed Using Grub2?
Jul 11, 2011I installed Fedora 15, which was my first real departure from Debian based Linux OSs. I absolutely love the new Gnome 3, and was able to configure F15 to work as I wanted it to. On rebooting I realized that there was no boot loader screen, that F15 just booted and didn't give me a choice as to which OS I wanted to use. Eventually I was able to configure grub to let me see the boot loader and added my old boot loader as a choice. This worked well, maybe not a perfect solution, but it worked. This weekend I installed LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) to another HDD. LMDE uses grub2 and after the install F15 was not recognized.
Two questions: Is there a way for grub2 to see F15? or Can F15 be installed using grub2? I really don't mind re-installing from scratch.
General :: Grub2 Detects Mac OSX On Sdb But Doesn't Install It To Grub.cfg
Feb 13, 2010Working on a quad boot system. Two Karmic installs (I find I tend to hork one every once in a while by playing too much, so having a backup around is nice), windows 7, and Snow Leopard. I got everything up and running, except I had Leopard installed instead of snow leopard. At that time, I had the following:
sda1->win 7
sda2->leopard
sda5->karmic 1
sda6->karmic 2
(others for swap / extended / etc)
Grub2 detected everything just fine, made a real nice grub.cfg file and away I went.Now, I've made a change. Snow Leopard required GUID partitions and I had my stuff all set up as MBR and was /not/ about to reformat and start over. So I added a second drive, sdb.
Now, I can boot to that drive independently. Fine.I can boot to sda just fine and go to either Ubuntu install or windows just fine. Great. Grub2 finds Mac OSX on /dev/sdb2. Awesome (sdb1 is a fat32 bootloader for hackintosh reasons). It not only doesn't update grub.cfg, it leaves the old /dev/sda2 listing for my old Leopard install ... whose partition I deleted. It isn't visible anymore.
Code:
> sudo update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found Debian background: radar.png
[code]....
But nothing after Ubuntu 9.10 on /dev/sda6 shows up in grub.cfg? I'm at a loss. Any ideas how to get it to populate? I'd rather not hack grub.cfg and have to rebuild it by hand every once in a while especially as grub was fine with finding it.
Slackware :: Grub/ Grub2/ Lilo - Can't Install Any Of Them Properly?
Nov 15, 2010I usually install grub straight away after an install but this time it hasn�t worked for some reason after installing 13.1 on a new lappy. I have tried grub, grub2 (from sbo) and lilo; nothing I install into MBR will boot my slackware installation, I have to use the boot USB stick every time.
grub-legacy would be my preferred one so i�ll ask for help specifically with that. This is what im doing so far -
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Fedora Installation :: Install Another Distro But Keep Fedora's Grub
Dec 24, 2009im still relatively new to linux and fedora, and i was wondering if it would be possible to install another distro on an external hard disk and keep fedora's grub. i tried this once before but the following things happened: (fedora is on my internal hard disk) the installation to the external hard drive went well, and i set the boot partition to C: because thats the first partition however when i unplugged my external hard drive, and proceeded to boot into fedora, nothing happened. my bios screen flashed and then a blank screen with a cursor. is there anyway to keep Fedora's grub where it is and just install another linux distro without that said distro's grub and add that distro to the grub list in fedora manually? or even boot to my external from the bios itself (because mine can do that)
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Mar 16, 2011sda win xp
sdb Fedora 14
There is a problem (I can see) with F14 install.
In the past the grub was installed during install (since Fedora 6).
Now choosing an install disk "sdb" (install target
drive) requests a drive to be chosen for
bootloader, but if the alternate drive sda is
chosen (this case the XP drive), it is formatted.
I have gone though install many times to see what I missed.
This once worked beautifully. What did I miss?
I now have XP and Fedora 14 installed but I cannot reach Fedora 14.
I had to do a fixmbr to get to XP
Since I cannot reach F14, I cannot get to grub2 and have to use .97
Fedora Hardware :: Unable To Install AMD Radeon HD 6310 - Edit Grub Menu From Initial Grub Screen?
Mar 17, 2011Now i've lost possibility to enter my Fedora system. during boot it lost it's modern blue boot screen (with filling drop), it was replaced by standard old boot screen with triple-color stripe. after this boot screen monitor start blinking going on and off. and on last step i'm getting "Fedora 14 boot bla bla bla something" on screen....nothing works except Ctrl+Alt+Delete....system reboots showing successful daemons shutting sequence. How can i edit grub menu from initial grub screen is it possible to it's own 'e' option or 'c' from grub command line?
View 6 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: How To Do A Complete Uninstall/purge Of Grub2
Oct 15, 2010When upgrading to Maverick I accidentally (yes, I know, my bad) installed Grub to my Ubuntu partition instead of to the MBR. It was already installed to the MBR prior to this. So, when I rebooted all I got was the Grub rescue console. I loaded the Linux image with a different boot loader on floppy instead, and proceeded to uninstall and reinstall Grub2 to MBR with
Code:
sudo apt-get purge grub-common grub-pc
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda
sudo update-grub
However, on restart I now get the regular Grub console, but not the selection screen to select what to boot. This even though all Linux kernel images and the Windows 7 partition I have was found during the reinstall. So, seems I need to do a complete purge of Grub from both MBR and sda3 (which is the Ubuntu partition i accidentally chose on upgrade), and start over clean. Question is then, how do I do it, line by line from the terminal?
Ubuntu Installation :: Grub2 Error After Reinstalling Grub Post Windows Install
Mar 27, 2010I'm using the Live CD and have followed steps to recover grub2 after XP install. (damn Windows)!
Upon rebooting I get the grub> prompt with no where to go. Upon installing grub via the Live CD I get this:
Quote:
Update:
When I do this link, upon doing the
Quote:
I get this:
Quote:
Ubuntu Installation :: Install Without Grub2 (use Existing Fine Working Grub Legacy)
Oct 2, 2010I have a dual boot config with
sda1 /boot
sda2 Win7
sda3 /
sda4 Truecrypt Partition
i have grub1 working and chaonloading truecrypt loader if i choose "win7" in grub1 menu I want to install a new kubuntu (no upgrade) I have read that that there are problems with grub2 and truecrypt actually a bug that grub2 dont chainloads truecrypt boot loader many ppl seem to have problems with grub2 then i read somewhere that ubuntu install is not asking for grub2 to be installed and just installing it. is this right?
i think at least for the alternative install cd its wrong. i installed it on another pc and it asked me! it works for win7 and Ubuntu and i guess its grub2 but there is no truecrypt installed anyway, i wanted to ask is the live cd installer asks me for grub2 and what is the best and easiest way to stay with my grub and just change the menu.lst to the new kernel (i guess there will be one)
Fedora :: Load Grub2 From Grub4dos / Load Directly Grub2 Core Without Passing By Bootstriping Code?
Jan 24, 2011I want to load grub2 from grub4dos.I want to load directly the grub2 core. I know how to load first 512 bytes from some patition by chainloader and load grub2, but what I need is to load directly grub2 core without passing by bootstriping code (first 512 bytes).So, my first boot manager is grub4dos, then I can load grub2 and later I load Ubuntu. But I think I have to edit --set-root
What I dont know is how.
In hdd 0,7 (sda8) I have Ubuntu 10.10 and /boot/grub/core.img is in sda8 (hd0.7)
I tried this way:
Code:
title grub2
find --set-root /boot/grub/core.img
kernel /boot/grub/core.img
Fedora Installation :: Uninstall Ubuntu / Add Fedora
Jul 25, 2009I been in the linux world about a whole week now. I have dual booted my laptop with xp and unbuntu 9.04. Everything is great but I would like to delete ubuntu and give fedora a try. I wish to keep windows xp for now. If I use windows to delete ubuntu partions, soon as I reboot grub will be gone and I will not be able to get to xp.
I thinking if I boot to fedora live dvd, wipe out ubuntu partitions, re-create partitions in the exact same space, install fedora and then reboot I will be fine. Am I right here or not. Will fedora reinstall grub, lilo or whatever to the mbr and when I reboot I will get a menu that allows me to choose which os I want to boot just as I am currently doing. Loosing windows is not an option just yet.
Software :: GRUB2 - Autoprobe "update Grub" Grub Seems To Detect All OS And Generates Grub.cfg
Feb 28, 2011I have an old BIOS (only 149 GB detected in 160 GB drive). I have installed very few OS as a result - Windows in first 80 GB , 2 distros (20 GB each) in next 40 MB which is within the 149 GB. On issue of "update-grub" grub seems to detect all OS and generates grub.cfg. But on boot , one distro does not appear in the menu.
View 3 Replies View RelatedFedora :: Re-install Grub After Preupgrade
Jul 4, 2011I was running Fedora 13 and used preupgrade to upgrade to Fedora 15. Unfortunately, probably because my boot partition is not located in the MBR, after rebooting and choosing Fedora from my boot manager, the system hung on a blank screen. I am guessing this is because I need to reinitialize grub.Can I do this from my Fedora 13 CD or do I need to burn a Fedora 15 CD and use rescue mode from there ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Fedora 8 Not In GRUB After 10.04 Install?
Aug 8, 2010The machine has two hard drives. sda1 has Windows XP, sda5 has Fedora 8, and now sdb1 has ubuntu 10.04.When I do "update-grub," it shows ubuntu, XP, and Fedora, but the conf file only reflects the update of the former two. Likewise, when I restart the machine, GRUB only shows ubuntu and XP.
View 2 Replies View RelatedRed Hat / Fedora :: Grub - No Access To F12 After W7 Install
May 21, 2010I installed windows 7 after I installed fedora so now i can't access my fedora OS. I've tried all the guides I found on the internet but fedora 10/11 guides doesn't seem to work for 12.
View 4 Replies View RelatedRed Hat / Fedora :: Install GRUB In Windows?
Jun 26, 2010Whether it is possible to install GRUB in windows to boot. Because I have installed one of the linux distro on USB. Now without the USB i am not able to boot windows.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOpenSUSE Install :: Add Fedora 13 To 11.2 Grub Menu?
Jan 24, 2009i have a intel dual core pc with 2 hdd of 160 gb each in the 1st one i have windows 7 and open suse 11.2. in the 2nd one i have a split it into 100 gb and the rest i had kept for fedora 13. i installed the fedora 13 on the 2 nd hdd even after install.i only have the option to boot into either windows 7 or opensuse .. and no option to boot into fedora 13.how to add fedora 13 menu and boot in to it...
View 1 Replies View RelatedFedora Installation :: Grub Won't Load After F10 Install?
Oct 22, 2009After I do a fresh install of Fedora 10 and reboot the computer, nothing happens. All I get is a blinking cursor at the top of the screen. It's like Grub is messed up and won't load. Grub is installed on the Master Boot Record of the drive I need to boot from.
I have an ASUS P4C800 motherboard with one SATA drive that Fedora 10 is installed on. I also have a HighPoint RocketRaid 1740 SATA RAID controller card. When I take the RocketRaid card out, everything boots like normal, but when it is installed all I get is a blinking cursor at the top of the screen. I need the RocketRaid card because it houses my RAID5 array with all my documents. The reason I got the RocketRaid card is because it has linux support and my motherboard was listed on their compatibility chart. I had this exact same setup running Windows XP and everything worked fine. I did not load any drivers for the RocketRaid card and was going to do that after the system was setup. I don't know if that is the problem since the installer does not see the raid array on the RocketRaid during install. I was thinking that maybe Grub is seeing another disk and doesn't know what to do and sits there with a blinking cursor.
I don't know where to go from here and I am a linux newbie. On a side note. If anyone knows of a good linux book (specifically Fedora), please let me know.