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Booting Help - XP and Linux problem (Moved by Murf)
Hi,
Well what happened was, before all this happened when I selected Linux on the Grub boot loader I got the message no such partition. So in XP I loaded up partition magic and the partition was there and in good condition. But all the same I just deleted it, forgetting that Grub was also on there. So when I boot up now I get the message:- Quote:
After I clicked Install now, I got the message setup could not get inforation on the disks on your computer. If I click OK It goes back to install now. So I reinstalled LINUX, now when I boot I still get the Nvida Boot Agent Message. So I tried booting with the linux disk in and pressed boot from hard drive, this brought up the grub loader. If I click linux if works fine, but If I click windows I get the message:- Quote:
Please Help, I am lost with what to do |
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Lets try the Linux forum, as I believe that is whear the problem lies.
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Which linux distro are you using? Can you post your /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf file from linux here for us to review?
Also, post the results if 'fdisk -l' (ran as root) so we will better understand your hard drive / partition setup. |
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Suse 10.1
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Jul 8 17:25:58 BST 2006 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows chainloader (hd1,0)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE Linux 10.1 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc1 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sda2 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Linux other### title Linux other chainloader (hd3,0)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy chainloader (fd0)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux 10.1 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdc1 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 initrd /boot/initrd |
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linux-jw9h:~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 1946 15631213+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 12748 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 30140 30401 2104515 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sdc: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 48641 390708801 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdd: 258 MB, 258473984 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 31 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 31 248976 b W95 FAT32 Disk /dev/sde: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes 1 heads, 3 sectors/track, 960 cylinders Units = cylinders of 3 * 512 = 1536 bytes This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 ? 259378637 639881847 570754815+ 72 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(259378636, 0, 1) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(639881846, 0, 1) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sde2 ? 56229841 701572588 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(56229840, 0, 3) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(701572587, 0, 1) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sde3 ? 623293822 1268636553 968014096 79 Unknown Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(623293821, 0, 3) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(1268636552, 0, 1) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sde4 ? 1 1212408832 1818613248 d Unknown Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(0, 0, 1) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(1212408831, 0, 3) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order Last edited by dudeking; July 8th, 2006 at 11:08 PM. |
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What is 'linux other' pointing to? Does it work?
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No, Suse altomaticly puts that and floppy there.
I have never pressed them, I only have one linux distro on this system. I normaly delete them but havnt had time yet. |
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I think windows is on dev/sda1
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Hm, alright. Well, I am not sure this will work, but try changing the windows entry in the /boot/grub/grub.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst file to this:
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title Windows root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 |
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Okay thanks I'll try that now, don't no if its connected but when I started my computer up about 15mins ago I got these messages.
CMOS - Checksum error - defaults loaded. <Pressed F1 to continue> Then Verifying DMI Pool data .....Update Successful Then tried booting windows and got the message:- Error 5: Partition table invalid or corrupt Press any key. Then I tried Linux and that worked fine still. But the time was reset to Jan 1st 2005 - 00.00 |
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I will reboot now and see if it works.
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No joy sorry.
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Will do, thanks.
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How do I 'burn' the image onto floppy?
Sorry I'm still learning with Linux commands. I tried just typing dd if=disk.dsk of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 but it didnt work. |
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