--- Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Hendrickx wrote:
> >
> > I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of
> my
> > primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's
> more,
> > if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't
> > recognized anymore. Help! I've tried fdisk /mbr from a floppy,
> that
> > didn't work. The Windows files are there, I can access them as
> > /dev/DOS_hda1. Any suggestions?
> [snip]
>
> John....open konsole, su to root and execute:
>
> fdisk /dev/hda
>
> then type:
>
> p
>
> then using your mouse and left mouse button highlight the
> output of the 'p' command you just did. Paste it into a reply
> to this message, using your middle mouse button. Here is what
> mine looks like:
>
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 467 3751146 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 468 1867 11245500 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 468 469 16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 935 1401 3751146 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 1402 1867 3743113+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8 470 752 2273166 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 753 784 257008+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda10 785 935 1212876 83 Linux
This is what it looks like. It's a 15G hard disk, initally with 4 partitions.
Windows 95 was/is on the first, the third and fourth are still empty FAT32
partitions, and the second partition has Linux-Mandrake 7.0 installed on it.
/dev/hda1 appears to be a boot partition so everything *should* be fine.
> Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 104 209632+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 105 787 1376928 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 105 231 256000+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hda6 232 235 8032+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda7 236 239 8032+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda8 240 243 8032+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda9 244 247 8032+ 83 Linux
>
> Alan
>
