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1. I would use the 15GB partition to share your photos between Linux & windows<BR>
2. The lilo.conf file looks OK. I can tell this is a Mandrake box from the file. If windows was booting OK before, it should boot OK now, unless you did something bad on the Linux install.<BR>
3. You must have a motherboard with a high speed controller, hence the /dev/hde. That is ok, the lilo.conf file seems to be written correctly for that, so again I repeat #2 above.<BR>
Can you start your windows in safe mode? If so, a driver may have gotten whacked, and first off, I would suspect the ide controller. Can't see how a driver would have gotten whacked individually but I'm also have not seen what happened since you started this, again #2 above.<BR>
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On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 19:47, Michael Brown wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 08:37, Cyber Source wrote:
> I started getting a head ache reading this one, lol,
my confusion/frustration must have come out in the email
> so I will give you a quick reply. Things you should probably do.
> 1. Keep it simple, if this is just a workstation, go with the default
> setup of the partitions.
> 2. Keep the windows side down to a small partition, it won't get
> fragmented as bad.
> 3. Try to loose the WinME if you can, if not, install that first, give
> it say a 5GB partition at most, with a dual boot, you can use the
> Linux side to store everything.
I am not in position to switch from WinME right now. I have heard many
people complain about it but I have had good (relative to windows) luck
until now.
I setup 2 FAT32 partitions. A 5GB for windows and 15GB for files. I
would like to use Linux to store everything but how do I access Linux
partitions from within windows? I mainly need access to my photos. I do
most of my photo editing in windows.
> 4. After Windows installs properly and can start and reboot without
> problems, put in the Linux cd and boot.
this was done
> 5. Go with the auto partition from Linux and remove all previous Linux
> partitions.
this could be done....but I don't need to use all the free space. I
would like one large partition for backups/archives etc.
> 6. Install and enjoy.
> Problems that might arise....
> 1. The Linux installs that I do (RedHat) default to setting in LILO of
> "linear", if your using LILO for the boot loader that is. If you do
> not see the LILO screen after the Linux install, it has a problem with
> this line. You need to run the rescue mode from the Linux cd and mount
> your Linux install in rescue mode, change the line of "linear" to
> "lba32" in the file /etc/lilo.conf and then rerun lilo by typing
> "lilo" after you change the file. If it comes back ok, you should see
> your lilo screen on the reboot.
I can see the lilo menu fine. But if I select windows it does not boot.
It's as if the registry is missing.
> 2. If you are jumping around from different disks, you will need to
> (map) the drives in the /etc/lilo.conf file, with a statement like
> this,
> table=/dev/hdb
> map-drive=0x80
> to=0x82
> map-drive=0x82
> to=0x80
> adjust accordingly. Hope some of this helps ya.
I have a single drive and lilo.conf says:
boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hde5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hde5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=ht"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hde5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hda=ide-scsi acpi=ht"
read-only
other=/dev/hde1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hde
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe
Seem Okay?
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:02, Michael Brown wrote:
> > Greetings All,
> >
> > I recently installed a new 200GB hard drive in my PC. Previously, I had
> > 2 40GB drives. One partitioned for Windows ME and one partitioned for
> > Linux (Mandrake/Redhat, whatever the flavor of the week happened to be).
> > This dual boot system worked great.
> >
> > The problem now is I can't seem to get the dual boot to work correctly
> > with a single hard drive.
> >
> > I have tried several different ways to partition the new drive. I have
> > been able to install windows and get it setup fine. Then I setup Linux
> > and all goes well until I have to reboot into windows. Currently,
> > windows reports an registry error and does not boot not even in safe
> > mode. Previously, I booted to the startup disk and ran scanreg then it
> > reports several missing files and instructs me to reinstall windows.
> >
> > I posted the output of fdisk /dev/hde below:
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hde1 * 1 608 4883728+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) C:
> > /dev/hde2 609 2432 14651280 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) D:
> > /dev/hde3 2433 7722 42491925 85 Linux extended
> > /dev/hde4 7723 24321 133331467+ 83 Linux /archive
> > /dev/hde5 2433 2675 1951866 83 Linux /
> > /dev/hde6 2676 2736 489951 82 Linux swap
> > /dev/hde7 2737 3952 9767488+ 83 Linux /usr
> > /dev/hde8 3953 5168 9767488+ 83 Linux /var
> > /dev/hde9 5169 7600 19535008+ 83 Linux /home
> > /dev/hde10 7601 7722 979933+ 83 Linux /tmp
> >
> > I did use cfdisk to setup this partition scheme. I also ran the command
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 on hde1 and hde2 per man
> > fdisk. cfdisk originally setup hde3 as type f (win95 ext'd) which caused
> > windows to "see" a third partition. But, I was able to boot back and
> > forth to Linux and windows until fsck complained of errors on hde4 and
> > they were too numerous to repair so I formated the partition again (it
> > was blank). Then windows could not boot.
> >
> > Changing hde3 to type 85 (Linux extended) cured the ghost partition
> > under windows after reformatting C: again.
> >
> > I should also note that during the current Mandrake 9.2 install lilo
> > found 2 windows installations. I did delete the windows2 option. But now
> > while Mandrake boots fine windows does not.
> >
> > Is this a partitioning issue or perhaps do I need to switch the bootable
> > flag from hde1 to hde5?
> >
> > I am hoping there is a simple solution without the need to repartition,
> > format, reinstall, etc. (again!) But, if I must, I will as long as I
> > know how to get it right this time.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Michael Brown</I></FONT></PRE>
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