I know there is a problem with the defrag tool on WinME. The problem is resolved with a patch download (though windows update). The problem is not just related to dualboot. In fact, the defrag utility (if not patched) can break your boot partition (even if it's a windows partition).
I don't know if this thread is related exactly to this issue nor I can test it (I use Windows ME/XP and Linux on seperated machines). ____________________________________ Albert Charron Trisotech Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Angus Auld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] defrag and linux Hi there, I've been running a dual-boot on my Dell Dimm for a few months now w/Mdk 8.2 and WinMe, and they seem to cohabitating peacefully on my hd. I have defragged my Win partition a few times and it hasn't caused any problems for Mdk. Am I courting disaster and holding out on luck alone?? I hardly use ME at all anymore, and I've thought about just dumping it and letting Mdk have the whole drive. Is this particular to laptops or are desktops involved too? Any further info about possible problems caused by Win defrag would be greatly appreciated. TIA for any feedback. --Angus ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniele de Sanctis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 17:51:42 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] defrag and linux > didn't try anything yet, but i'd like to say that that happened also on > another laptop with windows98 > > and another question: i'm thinking of installing windows 2k on my > windows partition. that installation could produce problem to the linux > partition (maybe in principle not, but.....)thank u > > daniele > > > > > > > Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > Daniele de Sanctis wrote: > > > dear all, > > > i have a laptop with a winME partition and a linuxM (8.2) partition, > > > they lived and grown up without problem until when i decided to make a > > > defrag of the windows partition, this cause a big problem to linux, at > > > booting it faced a kernel panic, not being able ti find the INIT. it > > > happened on another laptop in my lab, so the question is: how that > > > winblows can make problem to the linux partition? and also, how can i > > > defrag that partition, without causing problem at the linux's one?\ > > > > > > thank u > > > > > > > > > daniele > > > > daniele, > > > > I've been hearing more and more of "bad" things happening to the > > partition tables on disks partitioned for both windows and Linux when > > the Windows installed on the disk in ME. The first thing I would do if I > > were you, and I'm be painfully serious, I would take that ME disk and > > through as far away as humanly possible. Then reload your Windows side > > with 98 or some NT variant. NT4 or XP. IF you've got to run windows at > > least use something that works. For some as yet unknown reason ME is > > doing bad things to partitions tables. I'm going to have to get a disk > > with ME on it and install the sucker just to get to the bottom of this > > very strange mystery. And I will. > > > > For now though you may want to pass the kernel the location of the INIT > > at boot time at the LILO prompt. Boot your Mandrake install CD's in > > rescue mode, then from the menu that loads choose to go to the console. > > The init file your kernel is looking for live here: > > > > /etc/sysconfig/init > > > > At the LILO prompt you would pass this information to the kernel: > > > > LILO: linux 3 /etc/sysconfig/init > > > > Give that a shot and see what happens. From the sound of things ME's > > defreg has hosed your partition tables which is why your kernel can't > > see the "/" (root) partition of your Linux installation where the init > > file lives. > > > > While you've got the system booted in rescue mode you may try checking > > to if Linux fdisk will correctly display your partition table by issuing > > this command as root: > > > > fdisk /dev/hda <ENTER> > > > > let us know how you make out... > > > > Mark > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > -- > > > Dr Daniele de Sanctis, PhD student > > Homo sum humani nil alienum a me puto > > -------------------------------------|------------------------------------------ > X-ray Structural Biology Unit (B2) | phone and fax ++ 39 010 5737306 > Advanced Biotechnology Center (CBA) | e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Largo Rosanna Benzi 10 | web > http://alcor.ge.infm.it/daniele.htm > 16132 Genova - Italy | > - -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze
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