is it possible that you are directing the install program to set your boot
sector into the dos (hda1) partition?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Windows 98 Defrag and Linux Partitions
>
> > If a problem with the partition table happens, how do you get the
ability to
> > boot back into linux without losing anything even when a restore of the
>
> It seems to me that if you've got a DOS defragmentation program
> picking its way through an ext2-formatted partition that holds a Linux
> file system, there isn't going to be anything worth recovering. The
> very nature of defragmentation requires that it knows how the file
> system works and that's obviously not the case here.
>
> > partition table and boot sector couldn't do that? I have no problem
getting
> > back into windows (brutally with fdisk /mbr) but then I have no way of
> > getting back into my linux (and don't know how in grub) and I simply
just
>
> All grub does is point at a particular boot location.
>
> > wipe out the linux partition and reinstall (partly because I didn't have
> > much important stuff on it at the time anyways).
>
> I haven't experienced the problem you've encountered with defrag. But
> since you have, I'd recommend you listen to the people telling you not
> to use it. If Windows were half as smart as Bill Gates thinks it is,
> you wouldn't have to :-)
>
> Cheers - Larry
>
>
