On Oct 11, 2005, at 2:48 PM, Matt LeMieux wrote:
Thanks Robert for the post about Open SuSE. I am enjoying it. Since
moving to
Germany, I have been mostly using XP (gasp). Your link to Open SuSE
has put
me back on the straight and narrow (or something like that).
Glad you're liking it. From the reviews I've scanned, SuSE 10 seems
to be pretty darn nice. Scott's got a bunch of entries in his Blog
about it.
Anyway, my question has more to do with dual booting. My laptop was
originally
set up with SuSE 9.1 and Windows XP. As is obvious from what I say
above, I
recently put Open SuSE on the Linux partition. Today, I installed
Windows
2000 over XP. The Windows mount point in SuSE is still looking for
XP. How do
I change fstab (if that is indeed where I fix it) to make it look
for the
Windows 2k files instead?
Anna's right. The better way would have been to install Windows and
then install SuSE. But since you've already done it this way ...
Here is what is currently in fstab:
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs
acl,user_xattr 11
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs
ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap
defaults 0 0
/
Here are my current partitions:
/dev/hda1 * 1 3522 26626288+ c W95 FAT32
(LBA)
/dev/hda2 3763 3899 1030176 82 Linux
swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 3899 7752 29134224 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 3523 3762 1814400 f W95 Ext'd
(LBA)
/dev/hda5 3523 3762 1814368+ b W95 FAT32
It looks like you have two Windows partitions: one at /dev/hda1 and
the other at /dev/hda5. Both appear to have FAT filesystems instead
of the NTFS filesystem. This would mean you should have two entries
in your /etc/fstab. Currently, you have only one. Before we make
any changes to /etc/fstab I want to be sure that you have the
mountpoints and the correct mount options. Some questions for you:
Can you run this command and post back the output?
ls -la /windows/
As root, can you type these commands and post back the output of the
'df -HT ...' command?
mkdir -p /tmp/win/c
mount /dev/hda1 /tmp/win/c
mkdir -p /tmp/win/d
mount /dev/hda5 /tmp/win/c
df -HT /tmp/win/c /tmp/win/d # I'd like to see the output of this
command
umount /tmp/win/c /tmp/win/d
Also, if any of the above commands give you errors, please tell us
which command and what the error was.
What does the * mean, and
It means that that particular partitions has been flagged as
bootable. I believe this is more important for older versions of
Windows than Linux, since Linux uses a boot loader. But I may be
mistaken. Someone please correct me if I am.
why at the end of my partition read does it say "Partition table
entries are not in disk order"?
Because your partitions labels (/dev/hda1-5) differ in their order
from the start/end numbers of the sectors. For example, partitions 4
and 5 go from 3523 to 3762, which is between partition 1 which ends
at 3522 and partition 2 which begins at 3763. You can easily fix it
using fdisk, typing x for extra functionality, and typing f to fix
the partition order. However, I wouldn't do that, at least not right
now. For one, I don't think SuSE cares about the order and from the
sound of it Windows doesn't either. Second, if you do "fix" the
order, you'll have to redo your /etc/fstab before you reboot.
Otherwise, SuSE won't boot anymore. Since you can boot as it
currently stand, I'd say don't "fix" it, yet.
So for now, let's get the Windows partitions mounted and then worry
about the partition order ... maybe. ;)
Viele gruesse und glueck.
Regards,
- Robert
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