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http://crunchbanglinux.org – Hi, noob here. I decided I wanted to dual boot PCLinuxOS and wasn't really thinking about things when I installed and allowed PCLOS to install its own grub, overwriting #! on the mbr. After I messed that up, I just figured I would try to get #! on the new grub and leave it be. Well, after not being able to get that done, I raged and uninstalled PCLOS to find out that the original grub was broken.  When I tried to boot after the uninstall, the comp just went into infinite loop of unsuccessfully trying to start grub.I have now installed puppy on the free space left by PCOS and I'm (HowTos)

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Submitted by bolly on 01/04/2012 – Made popular on 01/04/2012

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