Newly Installed Win XP hides my debian

issacnewton · 01-07-2011, 01:57 PM

Hi

I had created 4 partitions of my 320 gb harddrive.
First 40 gb was reserved for xp , next 4 gb was swap partition , next 20 gb was linux main partition, and after it there is free space. I first installed linux on 3rd partition. I later installed win xp on the first partition. My laptop directly boots in xp . I don't see Debian listed even after pressing F8.

How do I re-access debian linux ?

silvyus_06 · 01-07-2011, 02:03 PM

windows is not that friendly with boot managers and doesn not recognise linux .

anyways , booting from a live cd of any distro and reinstalling grub from there (grub 1 or 2 ) would solve the situation .

THIS is for grub 1 from a ubuntu live cd.

issacnewton · 01-07-2011, 03:33 PM

thanks. I will try it.

silvyus_06 · 01-07-2011, 07:09 PM

Hi.
Please mark the thread as solved (you can find it in thread tools ) if you feel this issue was solved.

linuxunix · 01-07-2011, 08:45 PM

I would recommend anyone who stuck with Grub to follow this article.