A very noob scewup but i managed to make it lol
installed XP as i needed a win OS for a few things completly forgetting that linux has to be loaded second now i can not get back onto mint and i dont want to reinstall and risk the loss of data so what to add to windows boot.txt so i can select my linux drive on boot?
Thanx all
[SOLVED]Oppss I scewed up (installed win after mint)
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[SOLVED]Oppss I scewed up (installed win after mint)
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Re: Oppss I scewed up (installed win after mint)
whare1 wrote:A very noob scewup but i managed to make it lol
installed XP as i needed a win OS for a few things completly forgetting that linux has to be loaded second now i can not get back onto mint and i dont want to reinstall and risk the loss of data so what to add to windows boot.txt so i can select my linux drive on boot?
Thanx all
You can boot computer with Live CD, then open a terminal, type a few commands to reinstall Grub.
1. First you need to know which partition is your Mint root partition containing boot loader, to do that you can run a command
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sudo os-prober
2. Next is to mount the root partition
sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
3. next command is to reinstall grub to MBR by
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
hopefully it works
Reboot and test.
good luck
Re: Oppss I scewed up (installed win after mint)
Give that man a cookie
Thanx worked perfect
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