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Old July 8th, 2006, 03:19 PM
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Unhappy 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:-

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Originally Posted by Message
Nvida Boot Agent 212.0487

<Copyright Notice>

Client MAC ADDR: 00 50 70 56 A0 56
GUID: FFFFF...ect

DHCP.............../

<When DHCP Finished>


PXF-E53: No boot filename receved.

PXF-MOF: Exiting Nvidia boot agent

Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter.
This happens every time I boot, so I decided to just go a head with installing vista.
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:-

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Booting 'Windows'

Chainloader (hd1,0)+1

h.r <Then a symbol that looks like a smiley face>
I have tried fixboot, fixmbr, bootcfg and all this did was made the Boot Agent Error go away and the grub loaded but I still get the Chainloader message when loading XP.


Please Help,

I am lost with what to do
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Old July 8th, 2006, 04:55 PM
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Lets try the Linux forum, as I believe that is whear the problem lies.
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Old July 8th, 2006, 10:39 PM
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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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Old July 8th, 2006, 10:49 PM
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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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Old July 8th, 2006, 11:02 PM
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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

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Old July 9th, 2006, 03:34 AM
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What is 'linux other' pointing to? Does it work?
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Old July 9th, 2006, 09:32 AM
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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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Old July 9th, 2006, 11:22 AM
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I think windows is on dev/sda1
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Old July 9th, 2006, 03:42 PM
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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:

Code:
title Windows
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
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Old July 9th, 2006, 03:48 PM
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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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Old July 9th, 2006, 03:52 PM
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I will reboot now and see if it works.
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Old July 9th, 2006, 04:07 PM
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No joy sorry.
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Root (hd1,0)
Error 5: Partition table invalid or corrupt
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Old July 9th, 2006, 04:45 PM
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Download GAG, and install it to a floppy (this can be done from linux). Once you boot it, the configuration is fairly straight-forward. See if you can get windows to boot using this.
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Old July 9th, 2006, 05:24 PM
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Will do, thanks.
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Old July 9th, 2006, 05:46 PM
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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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