But every time I restart the computer the same message appears, so I cannot boot the computer at all. Show I would appreciate any help from anyone! Thank you! December 31, 2019 at 10:55 am Anonymous OMG, I last used WIN XP over 10 years ago. I think the message “no grldr” comes from the Windows boot loader, which does not find an operating system. Solution should be, you insert the WinXp-CD when starting. But I am not sure any more… December 31, 2019 at 11:19 am Member liofter Thank you so much for your quick response! Unfortunately I don’t have the windows xp cd. Is there some other way I can boot in the system? December 31, 2019 at 12:51 pm Anonymous You can try to install the bootloader grub into the MBR of your HDD (sda) using the antiX-live-iso or the live-iso from puppy. (it is also possible that you can’t even get the computer to start) This will remove the bootloader from XP. But I don’t know if the grub can recognize XP correctly, because this is damaged. It could be, you have to do without XP for the future or you find the file grldr on the net and can “make it available” to XP in a “suitable way” at startup. December 31, 2019 at 3:34 pm Member ModdIt Give Rescatux. Super Grub 2 a try. Should at least fix linux, I only remember a commercial tool to fix the xp loader. December 31, 2019 at 6:55 pm Member seaken64 Yes, SuperGrub2 should work to allow you to boot. You should boot to antiX and then run boot repair. That will also find WinXp and add it to your Grub. If you don’t have SuperGrub2 you can use a LiveUSB from antiX. You will need to set your BIOS to boot from USB. Or burn a LiveCD. Or use Plop from CD to boot from USB. I think Boot Repair is in the Control panel under Maintenance. I’ve been using antiX-19 lately so I may be wrong on where the program is located. You can also run “sudo grub-install” on a command line prompt inside a terminal. i see other people have this problem and their suggestion is to use a FAT16 partition? ARE YOU KIDDING ? FAT16? ten years ago that wouldv'e been fine however it is now 2007, you'd think linux wouldve progressed beyond requiring ten year old formats, and displaying useless error messages. seriously, how do you expect people like myself who hear such great things about linux, and think i'll check it out, see what the fuss is, maybe i'll switch to linux instead of buying vista , IF THE BLOODY THING WONT EVEN INSTALL , ill stick to XP thanks, at least that will install EVERY TIME ON ANY MACHINE and doesn't require some bodge-it-and-scarper ancient file system
Secondly, map dell's partition as floppy 1, i.e., drive B: map (hd0,0)+1 (fd1) map hookThen thirdly, boot to DOS in your drive A: chainloader (fd0)/io.sys boot At last, at the DOS prompt, copy GRLDR and menu.lst from A: to B: copy A:\grldr B: copy A:\menu.lst B: Note that the drive B: is exactly you Dell UTIL-Partition. Eject your floppy and reboot. Should be OK. -Re: Error: cannot find GRLDR in all drive. CTRL+ALT+DEL to restartthanks man, i've chilled out a bit now !! i put the grldr and menu.lst on my E:\ partition now when i choose ubuntu from the boot menu , the grub program runs but now it is telling me this : Warning MBR Cylinders (38914) is greater than the BIOS (625192446) Some buggy BIOSes can hang when you access sectors exceeding the BIOS limit find --set-root--ignore-floppies /wubi/boot/grub/menu.lst ERROR 17: file not found i can access the GRUB command line, but i dont know exactly what its trying to tell me or what to do about it any help would be appreciated incidentally i did try a livecd of pclinuxos , which seemed to work fine , even detecting my sound card which i was amazed at since the vista beta did not , and connecting to the internet with it was real easy, in stark contrast to the last time i tried linux (red hat 5) which involved searching for some seemingly random named help file in /usr/bla/what/ever/bla/bla/bla/bla/bla/../hidden/screw/you/wont/work/anywyz atm tho i dont want to go through the hassle of altering the partitions of my hard drive for a proper install of linux(my xp is running about as good as its ever been), which is why i am interested in the Wubi/linux-as-a-file-on-ntfs, so i can experiment without screwing up my existing setup which is in constant use |
