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wattOS R10 / Reinstall Grub2? (SOLVED)
« on: August 31, 2017, 12:50:30 AM »
Hey everyone...Watt's up?
I need some help. I have been using R10 for awhile (installed it on a computer I was given and that had previously had a different Linux distro). Been rolling along fine until last week when I wanted to live test SliTaz. I then wanted to return home to R10 after visiting the world of SliTaz and, when I rebooted (with all USBs and CDs removed and boot order reset to SATA HD booting first), it keeps coming up with the Slitaz Live CD menu. I have been troubleshooting with a very helpful guy (I am assuming guy....) named Ceel over at Slitaz and his assessment is that when I installed WattOS, I left a 20G partition untouched from the old distro. He thinks somehow I installed SliTaz on that 20G and the SliTaz's installer has overwritten the MBR and installed its bootloader. It appears that WattOS does probably still exist on the 130GB partition. He said to come back to wattOS, I have to re-install Grub2 from the wattOS LiveUSB, I don't know how to do that. Can anyone advise me?
Also, if anyone has any other thoughts of what might be going on, I would be grateful!
I need some help. I have been using R10 for awhile (installed it on a computer I was given and that had previously had a different Linux distro). Been rolling along fine until last week when I wanted to live test SliTaz. I then wanted to return home to R10 after visiting the world of SliTaz and, when I rebooted (with all USBs and CDs removed and boot order reset to SATA HD booting first), it keeps coming up with the Slitaz Live CD menu. I have been troubleshooting with a very helpful guy (I am assuming guy....) named Ceel over at Slitaz and his assessment is that when I installed WattOS, I left a 20G partition untouched from the old distro. He thinks somehow I installed SliTaz on that 20G and the SliTaz's installer has overwritten the MBR and installed its bootloader. It appears that WattOS does probably still exist on the 130GB partition. He said to come back to wattOS, I have to re-install Grub2 from the wattOS LiveUSB, I don't know how to do that. Can anyone advise me?
Also, if anyone has any other thoughts of what might be going on, I would be grateful!