On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:18:49AM -0700, ashutosh srivastava wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I have a 40 GB HDD with following partitions : > > PRIMARY > /dev/hda1 - 24 MB - XOSL dedicated > /dev/hda2 - 02 GB - Windows NT Worksataion 4.0 > /dev/hda3 - 03 GB - Windows 98 SE > > EXTENDED LOGICAL > /dev/hda5 - 04 GB - Shared Data FAT > /dev/hda6 - 14 GB - Shared Data FAT32 > /dev/hda7 - 500 MB - Linux Swap > /dev/hda8 - 10 GB - Red Hat 7.1 Linux Native > > I am multi booting NT,98,Linux from XOSL. > > When I created 1 GB partition out of /dev/hda6 and > installed BeOS I can multi boot NT,98,BeOS. Linux > boots but gives the message "Kernel Panic:VFS:Unable > to mount root fs on 03:08". > > However if I delete BeOS (or any partition before > Linux, for that matter) from MBR by Ranish Partion > then I am able to boot LInux without any problem. > > It appears to me that inserting new partition before > existing Linux partition is creating problem. I even > tried to edit /etc/fstab but nothing happened. > > DO I HAVE TO RE-INSTALL LINUX EVERY TIME I > INSERT/ADD/DELETE ANY PARTITION BEFORE EXISTING LINUX > PARTITION? > > Let me know if there is any way out? > > Ash > ---end quoted text---
Don't know much about XOSL, but it seems it uses the native boot mechanism of each OS for booting. In your case, you have a "house-full" situation with 3 primaries pre-occupied with XOSL, NT and 9x. You can have only one OS on the Ext- tended because thre is only one boot record, for the exten- ded partitions and all logicals share it. If you place BeOS boot loader here, LILO will be over-written. If you definitely want all four OSs, you may have to re-in- stall everything. Delete the XOSL partition, make it larger and place NT in /dev/hda1, 9x in hda2, BeOS in hda3 and the extended can be used for Linux. You may use logicals within the extended for data of NT or 9x etc. You need to achieve multi-boot through boot.ini of NT ... I have done this sort of a setup before, but with QNX instead of BeOS. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Killing X Programmes with xkill LOST #273 Stuck with a hung X programme ? Just run xkill on a xterm and your mouse pointer will change into a "killer". Just click on the culprit window and the latter will get killed instantly. ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>################################## : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
