Cannot find grldr in all drives (cannot boot)

[Member liofter]

Hello!
I am not a very well experienced Linux user so please excuse if I am ignorant about things.

I run antix 17.4 (with a separate home partition) on an old (2004) Toshiba laptop and the system crushes from time to time (for example when a website is very heavy).
I also have other partitions in the same hard drive with Linux puppy and Windows xp on them.
Yesterday, when everything got stuck for several minutes, I had to push the power button in order to shut the computer down. But when I tried to restart, the following message appeared (immediately after the primary bios screenshot):

Try (hd0,0):NTFS5: 2
Try (hd0,1):EXT2: No grldr
Try (hd0,2):non-MS: skip
Try (hd0,3):invalid or null
BIOS: Drive=0x0, H=1, S=1

Try (fd0): invalid or null
Cannot find grldr in all drives. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.

But every time I restart the computer the same message appears, so I cannot boot the computer at all.

I would appreciate any help from anyone!
Thank you!

[Anonymous]

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OMG, I last used WIN XP over 10 years ago.
I think the message “no grldr” comes from the Windows boot loader, which does not find an operating system.

Solution should be, you insert the WinXp-CD when starting.
But I am not sure any more…

[Member liofter]

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Thank you so much for your quick response!

Unfortunately I don’t have the windows xp cd.
Is there some other way I can boot in the system?

[Anonymous]

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You can try to install the bootloader grub into the MBR of your HDD (sda) using the antiX-live-iso or the live-iso from puppy. (it is also possible that you can’t even get the computer to start)

This will remove the bootloader from XP.
But I don’t know if the grub can recognize XP correctly, because this is damaged.

It could be, you have to do without XP for the future or you find the file grldr on the net and can “make it available” to XP in a “suitable way” at startup.

[Member ModdIt]

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Give Rescatux. Super Grub 2 a try. Should at least fix linux, I only remember a commercial tool to fix the xp loader.

[Member seaken64]

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Yes, SuperGrub2 should work to allow you to boot. You should boot to antiX and then run boot repair. That will also find WinXp and add it to your Grub.

If you don’t have SuperGrub2 you can use a LiveUSB from antiX. You will need to set your BIOS to boot from USB. Or burn a LiveCD. Or use Plop from CD to boot from USB.

I think Boot Repair is in the Control panel under Maintenance. I’ve been using antiX-19 lately so I may be wrong on where the program is located. You can also run “sudo grub-install” on a command line prompt inside a terminal.

Seaken64

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Hello and thank you for your replies!

Well, I gave Rescatux a try, as Moddit suggested, and it did work!

Here is what happened. Rescatux installed Grub and when I booted, Grub recognised Antix and Windows but not Puppy Linux. So I thought I should try and reinstall Grub4Dos (as it had been untill now) so that I could have also Puppy Linux in the boot menu. But then upon restarting the computer, the same error message appeared and I could not boot into anything. So the conflict is with Grub4Dos but I am not sure what is the cause of the problem.
Anyway, I now have grub installed and (through searching) I managed to have also Puppy in the grub entries.

So, thank you so much for the support! The forum works perfectly well!

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