Partition confusion

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Sat Nov 8 09:52:01 EST 2003


1. I would use the 15GB partition to share your photos between Linux &
windows
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.
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.
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.

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 19:47, Michael Brown wrote:

> 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
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