I've made a bit of a mess with my netbook :-)

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Evening all,

I've got an eee900 with Xandros installed, I bought a 4gb sd card with the plan to install a couple of small light distros to see how they go on the netbook. So i used unetbootin and created a Xubuntu live usb stick, booted using that on the netbook and installed it on the sd card.

Great so far, when i boot the netbook i get grub error 21. I'm a bit stuck now, is my best bet to try and find a xandros live usb stick and alter grub that way?

I think the mistake i made was to install grub with the Xubuntu install

H.E.L.P :D
 
Actually it's alright now, I had a read of the manuals that came with the netbook. You can wipe and reinstall xandros using a usb stick from the cd/dvd, it's back to factory settings now.

I'll give it another go now lol
 
I did something similar, installed Ubuntu on an SD card alongside my XP install, and got a grub error. I had grub installed to the SD card though, meaning that to switch between Linux and XP I had to do so in the BIOS, rather than in the grub menu - this was a pain, but when it went wrong it did mean that I could just boot Windows by removing the SD card - if the case is the same with you, you can do the same thing. If not, I believe that putting Xubuntu on a USB stick with Unetbootin is your best bet, and re-installing Grub via that, but I'm not 100% sure.

I solved my issues by installing Cruncheee on my hard drives over XP and Ubuntu; if you can afford to do that and lose your data I wouldn't recommend against it, it's been so good that I've stuck Crunchbang on my desktop too now :D

I'm not sure if EasyBCD can be put on a bootable CD/USB pen drive? If so that may be another option...

EDIT: After all that I post and find that you've sorted it. Booo :D
 
Ha Ha thanks for posting Manic, I'm just installing Xubuntu again on a usb stick. I'll give it another go on the SD card, I'm not sure how i don't install grub though.
 
no offense taken, I just couldnt work out how to edit Xandros. In the past with ubuntu, I've used a live cd to edit grub
 
Has anyone completely wiped their netbook, installed a distro and then reinstalled xandros? If yes, did it work ok by just using the DVD/CD's that came with the netbook?
 
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