btw, you mentioned earlier you were multibooting as linux didn't have drivers for your printer. Which printer are you running?
Brandon Dorman wrote: > Thanks Frank, > > I think I will have to completely overhaul my system. :-( I > can't afford the downtime right now due to a new semester starting but > should be able to get to it this weekend, for now windows is working > fine if not my preferred environment. Would it be ok if I did this: > > HDA > (8gigs windows)(2gigs home - all my settings from when I had all my > linux stuff is still here... can I keep /home here and have all the > other linux stuff on the second drive?)(2 gigs for games)(was / when I > this was my only harddrive) > > HDB? (I will try chaning the jumper and cable setting on the computer > to get it to show up at hdb) > (40 megs /boot)( 10 gigs / )((320mb swap (I have 160megs of phys. > ram))(the rest: games and mp3's.) > > HDC: Cdrom drive > HDD: cdwriter drive > > well if the letters change a little but i'm hoping that scenario, if I > can install grub on the MASTER drive, will let me boot to both windows > and linux. don't know what happened last time... > > Thanks for all your help! > > -Brandon > At 11:22 AM 1/8/02 -0700, Frank Carreiro wrote: > >> If it's an option I would strongly recommend starting over with the >> system. It sounds like there are many more problems than could be >> easily dealt with in a timely manner. >> >> Here's what I've done in the past. This has worked for 98SE, NT, >> 2000 and XP systems. >> >> Install Windows on your C: drive. I usually partition a 20 Gig drive >> with a 3 or 4 Gig C: drive. If installing XP anything smaller will >> be difficult as XP "can" take up to 1.6 Gigs of disk space from a >> fresh install (I've seen this on a couple of systems). After it's >> finished go ahead and install Linux. Usually I make a boot partition >> of around 40 megs then whatever you want after that for root and >> other junk. I believe grub doesn't suffer from the 1024 cylinder >> problems lilo usually does so this should work out (comments on grub?). >> >> Haven't tried 7.2 seriously yet. I have a test system running with >> ext3. Very impressive so far :-) >> >> Good Luck! >> >> Frank >> >> >> >> Brandon Dorman wrote: >> >>> It appears the problem is worse than I thought. I rebooted after >>> posting that post and Linux came up with all kinds of filesystem >>> erros, the whole, "you have 5 seconds to perform a manual file >>> system check" after which, finding duplicate clusters, it scanned >>> with something like, "Pass A1, B1," until I pressed Control-C which >>> I shouldn't have and it ended up giving a message something like, >>> "initd was done repeatedly too much" then I restarted. I remembered >>> that I had used Partition Magic's bootmagic in the past and put in >>> that rescue disk, and was able to boot into windows, where I am >>> now. So I can't go back into linux just yet to get the rest of >>> fdisk -I - it doesn't work under windows. >>> >>> HDD is because I have my harddrive on the second controller with the >>> jumpers marked as slave. I'm thinking I may try messing with those >>> settings as well, set it to auto select or something. When booting, >>> it shows: IDE0= Quantum (my windows drive), IDE3=WDC (Western >>> Digital, the new drive) and therefore linux calls the first drive >>> hda1 and the other one hdh (I know hdd is a cdrom drive, dont know >>> about the other letters. I have a cdrom drive and a cdwriter drive >>> that linux recognizes, hadn't paid much attention to drive lettes in >>> a long time thanks to an awesome-working RH 7.2). >>> >>> I'll pull out my boot disk and try to boot into linux enough to run >>> fsck and fdisk -i today, thanks for the help. I'll also try df to >>> get the listing of the partition stuff and write it down for here. >>> I will try to be more concise in future posts. >>> >>> >>> -Brandon >>> >>> At 08:56 AM 1/8/02 -0700, you wrote: >>> >>>> I'm just starting to mess around with grub. Not very familiar with >>>> it (yet). Here is something that could help. >>>> >>>> I had an instance where I was multibooting with Redhat 7.1 and >>>> Windoze XP. Originally I had Windows 98SE and had enough. From >>>> Linux I deleted the windows partition then rebooted to my XP cd and >>>> performed an install. Once completed I inserted my 7.1 boot disk >>>> and ran lilo. This overwrote the boot sector and now I can boot >>>> 7.1 or XP from lilo. Grub should have a similar utility >>>> available. Perhaps reading the man page would shed some light? >>>> >>>> BTW, my 7.1 root is hda1 or 2 I believe. Hope this helps. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I've got RH 7.2. Just got a new harddrive. Let's call it HD1, >>>>> the new >>>>> one HD2. /boot and / are on HD2, Windows and such is on HD1. I >>>>> thought >>>>> I installed GRUB on the master boot partition, but during the >>>>> installation process it listed it as, "hdh5" because that's the >>>>> first vfat partition on the second harddrive. Below is the >>>>> pertinant portion >>>>> of my grub.conf file in /etc/ It looked identical to the one in >>>>> /boot/grub Input is appreciated, as I can't even load windows >>>>> with a >>>>> boot disk, and being in college I need to go in there to print as >>>>> I have >>>>> a Lexmark USB multifunction device with no drivers for linux... good >>>>> thing the semester is just starting. Thanks >>>>> >>>>> splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz >>>>> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) >>>>> root (hd1,0) >>>>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hdh2 hdd=ide-scsi >>>>> initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img >>>>> title Windows >>>>> rootnoverify (hd1,4) >>>>> /dev/hda1 >>>>> chainloader +1 >>>>> >>>>> Sincerely, >>>>> Brandon Dorman >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >>>> Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com ). >>>> Version: 6.0.303 / Virus Database: 164 - Release Date: 11/24/01 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>--- >>>Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >>>Checked by AVG anti-virus system >>>(http://www.grisoft.com). >>>Version: 6.0.303 / Virus Database: 164 - Release Date: 11/24/01 >>> >> >> >> --- >> Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >> Checked by AVG anti-virus system ( http://www.grisoft.com >> <http://www.grisoft.com/> ). >> Version: 6.0.303 / Virus Database: 164 - Release Date: 11/24/01 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.303 / Virus Database: 164 - Release Date: 11/24/01 > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
