no boot choice screen, have to use boot disk, help???

[Creech]

i have a problem. my windows partition crashed and when it did it messed up the boot loader i think, now when i start the ocmputer i dont get the boot choice screen. so i only way to boot into linux is with the boot disk. this is kinda of an inconvience. could someone help figure out how to get the boot scrren back so booting linux is easier.

[z0mbix]

What boot manager were you using? ntloader? LILO? GRUB? Whichever you use, just reinstall it. If it's LILO or GRUB your config files should still be there and just need to rerun their respective install programs i.e. /sbin/lilo. If you were using ntloader you may have to go through the setup steps again. i.e. dd and edit boot.ini

Good luck. All of this can easily be found on google.com/linux and the forums here.

[bigrigdriver]

Once you get you boot loader working again, do yourself a HUGE favor. Check your distro's list of HOW-TO's and mini-HOW-TO's. Look for Loadin and Win95 mini-HOW-TO. It details how to create a Linux directory on your Windows partition, create a simple DOS bat file, and copy the compressed kernel image from your Linux partition into that directory.

First, create the Linux directory and the Linux.bat file in Windows. Then boot into Linux, mount the Windows partition, and copy the compressed kernel image (vmlinuz) from the /boot or /boot/grub directory into the Linux directory in Windows. Thereafter, if something screws up the MBR, you can still boot Linux from the boot floppy, or boot Windows into DOS mode and cd to the Linux directory. Then run Linux.bat to boot into Linux.

That tactic has saved my bacon more than once.

Hope you find this advice useful.:cool: