partition nightmares
jim ruxton
cinetron at passport.ca
Thu Jul 27 21:22:59 UTC 2006
Thanks Andy,
> I copied some instructions from the link sent you this morning.
>
> Mount the floppy drive if it's not mounted (assumes /mnt/floppy
> exists): mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> Run the following command: dd if=/dev/hda2
> of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1
> Substitute the path for the if= parameter (the input file) with
> the appropriate partition from the previous step. E.g., set if=
> to /dev/hda2.
>
> Reboot into Windows
Problem is I can't boot into Windows. Also I don't have a floppy Drive
on my laptop : (
jim
>
> Copy the linux.bin file to C:\
>
> Run notepad and edit C:\boot.ini. Note that C:\boot.ini is a hidden
> system file, so it probably won't show up in Windows Explorer. To
> edit the file, try: Start->Run and enter: notepad C:\boot.ini. Add
> the following line at the end: c:\linux.bin="Linux"
>
> Reboot again. You should be able to pick either Windows or Linux.
> Selecting Linux will start GRUB
>
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> Thanks Andy,
> Sorry I've never done this before so am a bit nervous until I am totally
> clear what to do. How do I back up my bootloader? What you are saying
> is :
> 1) backup bootloader (not sure how I do this, just copy /boot?)
> 2) run fdisk /mbr off a bootable cd
> 3) reinstall bootloader (how do I do this?)
> 4) then you are saying I should be able to boot windows or linux again
> from grub
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> I was wondering if you are someone could help fill in the blanks for me.
> Thanks again for the help Andy.
> cheers,
> jim
> > Yes. Before you run DOS FDISK, you need to back up your bootloader. Here
> is
> > the link you can refer to
> > "http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html".
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> > > You can use FDISK to recover the MBR. The command is "FDISK /MBR".
> > Won't this command overwrite my Grub bootloader as well?
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> > > Hi, I recently reinstalled Fedora (went from 3 to 5) . Rather than
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> > > an upgrade I did a complete reinstall. Everything went well till I
> > > decided to create a FAT32 partition on my Windows partition . I dual
> > > boot this machine. I was using Partition Magic while trying to create
> > > the FAT32 partition. Next time I booted using Grub into my Windows
> > > partition Windows wouldn't load. My files are still there and I can
> > > mount them using ntfsmount in linux but can't start windows. When I
> load
> > > the windows systems CD that came with my laptop I can't start Windows
> > > either. I really don't want to wipe my nice new FC5 to reload Windows.
> > > Any thoughts what I can do to get Windows back? Here is the output of
> > > fdisk -l ? Thanks.
> > >
> > > jim
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> > >
> > > Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > >
> > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > > /dev/hda1 * 3951 7296 26876713+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > > /dev/hda2 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> > > /dev/hda3 14 3950 31623952+ 8e Linux LVM
> > >
> > > Partition table entries are not in disk order
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
> > >
> > > Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
> > > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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> > > Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
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