1 Topic by jpdiefenbach

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Topic: Still seeing GParted menu on boot-up

So I used the LiveCD to resize an NTFS partition, as well as create a fat32, linux swap, and linux ext2 partitions. The process went smoothly and the partitions themselves are working fine. However, I'm having a small problem.

Whenever I boot up, instead of going to the MBR (in this case, LILO set to dual boot between XP and Zenwalk Linux) it goes straight to the GParted menu. This is happening WITHOUT THE LIVECD ACTUALLY BEING IN THE CDROM DRIVE. I'm baffled. Has anyone else had the problem of still seeing the GParted menu on boot-up, without having the cd in? Any way to fix this so I boot straight from the MBR without having to view the GParted menu and select it from there?

Thanks in advance for the help!

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Re: Still seeing GParted menu on boot-up

I don't understand well this issue (Gparted live doesn't install itself on disk, neither installs Grub).
Did you try to reinstall LILO?

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

3 Reply by jpdiefenbach

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Re: Still seeing GParted menu on boot-up

Solved! In order to boot from the cd, I had to change the first boot device to cdrom... Not sure if this makes any more sense, but perhaps when it tried to boot from the empty cdrom it picked up the gparted menu still in the cache? At any rate, when I switched "first boot device" back to my hard-drive, it fixed it.

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Re: Still seeing GParted menu on boot-up

After rebooting, any ram cache is deleted.
Of course, we need to adjust the boot order and put the cdrom in priority.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***