Cannonfodder Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 I don't think that code is needed for win2k, more for 98/millinium. Reason is that win2k has a file called boot.ini. That text file contains the location of the win2k installation. It's actually the win2k boot loader. I used to have several versions of win2k running and don't recall needing that code. I stand corrected if I'm wrong though ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 1, 2004 Report Share Posted March 1, 2004 no, you're rt. My boot.ini is in win98.... hda1=win98 hda2=w2k point is.....the boot.ini has to be ion the master/1st-primary.....that's all that is required....that I know of. The wk2 bootloader is ntldr (NT-Loader)....it reads the boot.ini. wk2/xp doesn't need to be mapped unless it's somewhere other than hda1 and there's is no win on hda1 to hold a C:\boot.ini. I use to have linux on hda and win on hdb....I needed the map switch to fool win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neutro Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 So it would appear that maybe there's a problem with your boot.ini... did you look at it? I think you said you could boot into linux and examine it, maybe even edit it if the boot.ini is on a VFAT drive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 bvc, I see, you right! Will wonders never cease? You need to check that boot.ini file. Post it here if you need too.. [boot loader] timeout=5 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilmrt Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 ok, here it is... [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect ARGH its exactly the same as cannon's. What are my options short of reformatting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 mine [boot loader]timeout=5 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Win2Pro" /fastdetect C:\="Win98" C:\bootsect.lnx="Suse9Pro" What are my options short of reformatting?Have you started diskdrake? It's in the Mandrake Control Center>Mount Points. I ask because if something is wacked out to the point that....-->Well, I tried the win 98 fdisk /mbr...got a "no operating system found" error.....then attempted to run the recovery console for win2k and it wouldn't even let me...just said "no operating system found" again.<--...then maybe the partitions are overlapping or something, and if they are, diskdrake will tell you that it can not do anything because the partition table is too corrupt for it. At that point it's time to startup parted in mandrake and see if it says that partitions are overlapping. If parted does say that then let it attempt to fix it. If something else and it claims to be able to fix it then let it try. About to reinstall anyway, rt? Also, how's your psu? Any weird behavior lately? My 3.5 year old psu in my old sys died last night. Sure it sounded fine and I could get to the bios but there were no hd's listed in the bios. I got the same "no operating system found". I put in a spare psu and all is well. I know your linux boots.....but pc's are strange, bios have bugs, and win is all of the above and more. It could be many things and not linux's 'fault', but I'll admit that there's a reason I no longer install a linux bootloader to my mbr, but to / of the distro and use BootMagic or currently http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=11887 then use grub from suse9pro to boot al the other linux's. Yeah, I'm sure I've had more problems than most dualbooters because of the constant testing of distros and just plain playing around, but bootloaders should not cause so many problems. People say BTMagic adds complications to the boot process.....whatever.....they're files for goodness sake, and if it were to add 200mb of code to the boot process, who cares, if it works! I even bought a second hd to ease complications and ended up reinstalling everything. I could go on and on but you get the idea. Sometimes, not only is formating/reinstalling the only choice but sometimes it's the easiest. Let us know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Also, try to be logical about the boot process. It's a sequencial process, bios, mbr, lilo, win.. Eliminate each step as being part of the problem. bvc reminded me of a few things I haven't thought of in a while.. http://xosl.sourceforge.net/ http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/os.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilmrt Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 damn, I don't want to reformat. Can't I just...hmm... How about reformatting the second drive and reinstalling windows...and using the map commands from before in lilo for that? And then I could move the files I wanted off the lost partition, and delete it...and resize my linux partition? Will this work? :deal: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted March 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Resizing the linux partition might be tough, but I think it can be done. What you are proposing should work. You will have to reinstall lilo from CD1 before you will be able to boot into Linux again, but that's not hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilmrt Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 AH HA!!!!! I think I've had a breakthrough! I wasn't able to try out qtparted as urpmi was messed up....fixed that finally....ran qtparted....and: [root@localhost jt]# qtparted Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders. No Implementation: Support for opening ntfs file systems is not implemented yet. Error: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted! You should e2fsck. Modifying an unclean filesystem could cause severe corruption. Now I can't run e2fsck on the NTFS partition. What do I use for that? And I can't unmount my linux partition that I'm using to fix that....knoppix? "may cause fixable problems with bootloaders :D " woohoo! now how do we fix fix fix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 does chkdsk /f work in xp/ntfs? I d/k know anything about ntfs, I use fat32. I also try, really try, to never let a linux format my hd and use Partition Magic 8.0 (ext3fs)......no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilmrt Posted March 5, 2004 Report Share Posted March 5, 2004 ok, fdisk -l gives me this output: Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 232581 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 116041 58484601 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 116042 232581 58736160 5 Extended /dev/hda5 116042 231525 58203904+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 231526 232581 532192+ 82 Linux swap hda2 and hda5 overlap? is this the problem? and if so, how do I change this (I know you can, just not HOW) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 5, 2004 Report Share Posted March 5, 2004 ok, fdisk -l gives me this output: Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes<!--QuoteEBegin-->16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 232581 cylinders<!--QuoteEBegin-->Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteEBegin--> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<!--QuoteEBegin-->/dev/hda1 * 1 116041 58484601 7 HPFS/NTFS<!--QuoteEBegin-->/dev/hda2 116042 232581 58736160 5 Extended<!--QuoteEBegin-->/dev/hda5 116042 231525 58203904+ 83 Linux<!--QuoteEBegin-->/dev/hda6 231526 232581 532192+ 82 Linux swap<!--QuoteEBegin--> hda2 and hda5 overlap? is this the problem? and if so, how do I change this (I know you can, just not HOW) no that's not the problem....the extended is suppose to. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 893 7172991 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 894 14946 112880722+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 894 957 514048+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb6 958 1850 7172991 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 1851 2743 7172991 83 Linux /dev/hdb8 2744 3636 7172991 83 Linux /dev/hdb9 3637 4529 7172991 83 Linux /dev/hdb10 4530 5422 7172991 83 Linux /dev/hdb11 5423 7285 14964516 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb12 7286 9158 15044841 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb13 14373 14627 2048256 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 /dev/hdb14 14628 14946 2562336 1b Hidden W95 FAT32 If it were a problem and qtparted was truly parted it would have told you they were overlapping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilmrt Posted March 5, 2004 Report Share Posted March 5, 2004 ok fine. reinstallation it is :D thanks anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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