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[Linux] Ubuntu cant start – fix of liveCD booting problems ( GRUB )

You cant run LiveCD because it cant run correctly, errors? If yes, this video is your YOU! :) GRUB

Question about dual booting GRUB?

Here’s the situation. I installed BackTrack linux (Based on ubuntu i think, linux newbie) then once that was installed on partition A of my hard drive, I installed windows XP. Might have been in reverse order. Basically it was set up with Grub to choose between the two and grub was automatically set up. Well now that I had to reinstall windows on its partition, it doesnt go to the GRUB menu anymore. Its still windows XP. How can I change this so it goes back to GRUB menu and not straight to windows. I know that the Linux partition is still there I just cant boot into it. If I need to edit anything on the linux part I can always just use a live CD to get to it but I dont know what im suppose to do exactly. Any Ideas?

GRUB loading stage 1.5?

I have a linux machine that’s not booting up. It keeps saying
GRUB loading stage 1.5
GRUB loading, please wait
I only have one OS on this machine. I have tried repairing it using the Ubuntu Live CD but it didn’t help. Any help is appreciated.

Could I stop using the GRUB loader on linux? (For an experienced linux user)?

I want to dual boot the full version of Linux, Fedora… with Windows 7 which is already installed, the problem is it comes with the GRUB loader, and that’s a problem because the last time I did that with Ubuntu, I was very unsatisfied with that installation of Ubuntu, and it was better from a live cd. I booted back into Windows and deleted the partition of Ubuntu, and didn’t touch the GRUB loader and the system crashed. I re-installed ubuntu but then windows didn’t work at all.

Now I wanna try Fedora and I tried it from a live USB (another install of ubuntu worked except flash player)… I wanna use Fedora but I don’t want to deal with all the GRUB krud again, the NT boot loader is better in my opinion…

grub linux loader question?

I installed Mint Linux 9 yesterday on my computer, and when I restarted my computer it won’t start. It says

error: out of disk
grub rescue>_

Others said that I should type in fdisk -l and tell them what it says. It doesn’t say anything.
When I type fdisk -l, it doesn’t print anything on the screen.
When I type fdisk /dev/hda0 it doesn’t print anything either.
It seems that linux doesn’t recognize my hard drive, but that’s not true, because it did install itself on my hard drive. So, it should recognize my hard drive. Apparently the live cd is working fine, but the installation on my hard drive doesn’t want to start.