On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 16:21, vidiyala prashanth wrote: > my GRUB is not booting .it says that > the initrd .img files,linuz files and sytem.map files are missing. > do i have to reinstall linux o.s again?mine is/was a dual boot system(win98 & linux) originally. > i donot have any backup copies. Not needed U can install grub using grub-install /dev/'ur hard disk name' but u need to have the first boot cd for going into linux rescue mode,so that it drops u into a shell environment,where u can give the grub-install command > > > --------------------------------- > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/