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sabayon4 not booting..please help me

Postby balajijagadesh » Thu May 28, 2009 4:54

yesterday i installed sabayon 4 as a dual boot with windows.... it was working very fine... though i selected windows as dual boot after installing sabayon safemode was default.. then i logged on into windows ... then i hibernated in windows... then when i again tried to start the computer, windows was not coming... not even the bootlist.... i am new to linux.. something like grub came in command line.... i tried many commands like kernal... boot... etc... but nothing is working.... how can i overcome this problem..????? now i am unable to do any thing with that computer... some one please help me...???????
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Re: sabayon4 not booting..please help me

Postby pepe999 » Thu May 28, 2009 11:29

Provide more details please..
Boot up to the liveDVD as root(username and password is root) and paste the content of /boot/grub/menu.lst on your Sabayon file system..
Then paste
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fdisk -l

You can also update Grub..
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3) slightly more complicated -->
3a. Pop in the Live CD, boot from it until you reach the desktop.
3b. Open a terminal window or switch to a tty.
3c. Type "grub"
3d. Type "find /boot/grub/stage1". You'll get a response like "(hd0)" or in my case "(hd0,2)". Use whatever your computer spits out for the following line
3e. Type "root (hd0,2)", or whatever your harddisk + boot partition numbers are (my /boot is at /dev/sda7, which translates to hd0,6 for grub).
3f. Type "setup (hd0)", ot whatever your harddisk nr is.
3g. Quit grub by typing "quit".
3h. Reboot.
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