Got me a small problem after upgrading from RHat 7.3 to 8.0 recently...
The old PC config. (before the upgrade):
a. Pentium III with Intel sound card and graphics adapter;
20 MB hard disk.
b. 5 MB was allocated for Win2000 (NTFS) and the rest Linux (EXT3).
c. Grub was the loader and upon boot up the typical loader screen
allowing me to choose which O/S to boot with.
I then installed 8.0 with the workstation option (Not upgrade).
When came
time to partition, it saw hda1 as NTFS partition and did asked
me what
should be the default O/S to boot. However, upon boot up
(after installation
is done), Grub never comes up...I cannot get to Windows 2000.
The /root/grub/grub.conf file lookes like this:
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes
to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel
and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel
/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd
/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=20
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title Win2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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A df -k gives me this:
Filesystem
1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3
14294464 2069584 11498744 16% /
/dev/hda2
101107 9381 86505
10% /boot
none
62552 0
62552 0% /dev/shm
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Checking KDE's hardware browser, my hard disk looks like this:
hda1 5005MB NTFS
hda2 102MB ext3
hda3 14182MB ext3
hda5 251MB swap
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My questions are:
a. Can I get my Win2000 back via Grub like it was before?
b. Can the NTFS partition be mounted when Linux boots up? How to?
c. My objective is to get the previous capabilities and some new
stuff to do a little programming and development.
Appreciate the assistance...sorry for the rather lengthy post but
I
figure better excessive info. rather than just "Uh, I didn't do
nothing..."
Muhsin Mahmud