[newbie] Linux Boot Message
I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message
On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 00:42, Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal You can open up /etc/lilo.conf in a text editor, remove the lines for the Windows boot and re-run lilo - then reboot - here's an example: prompt timeout=50 default=Linux boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message vga=1 lba32 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 label=Linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img read-only root=/dev/hda5 append=hdd=ide-scsi idebus=133 other=/dev/hda1 optional label=Windows ^^^ The section starting with other would be the one that you'd want to delete - don't delete the linux one! By re-running lilo, you write this information to the boot map - so after you've modified the file and ran lilo, on your bootup, you won't see ANY Microsloth at all! Peace. -- Fri Dec 27 00:45:00 EST 2002 12:45am up 1 day, 15:30, 5 users, load average: 0.63, 1.42, 1.31 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- You look tired. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message
Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal Is there any particular reason why you choose to boot from floppy. There is a perfectly good bootloader called lilo. Anyway the reason you are getting these messages is because you are booting from a floppy that thinks you still have your w2k/ntfs partitions. The easiest way to rectify this is to boot to desktop go to MCC - boot - boot disk and remake your floppy disk so that it will then know about your changed partition table. This is also true of any alteration whatsoever to your partition table, and very often it will fail to boot at all so next time you remove a partition make sure you make new boot floppies, it makes life easier. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message
On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal Is there any particular reason why you choose to boot from floppy. There is a perfectly good bootloader called lilo. Anyway the reason you are getting these messages is because you are booting from a floppy that thinks you still have your w2k/ntfs partitions. The easiest way to rectify this is to boot to desktop go to MCC - boot - boot disk and remake your floppy disk so that it will then know about your changed partition table. This is also true of any alteration whatsoever to your partition table, and very often it will fail to boot at all so next time you remove a partition make sure you make new boot floppies, it makes life easier. John John - since I expect to remove some partitions soon - do I take it that the order is MCC - remove partition Edit lilo - remove partition stanza run lilo re-make boot floppy reboot? I presume that you have to have re-run lilo before you re-make the boot floppy? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Boot Message
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 26 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Kamal Gathani wrote: I was previously dual-booting Mandrake 9 with Win2K, both OS on separate hard drives. Mandrake is booting via loader on floppy disk. I no longer needed windows, so removed its partitions :-) Only problem is that during boot up, Mandrake keeps complaining that it is unable to find/mount local file systems mnt/nt2 and mnt/nt3. Is there any way to tell Mandrake to stop looking for these non-existent volumes? Did not find anything under MCC. The KDE Control Centre Information section shows these partitions as existent, each 0MB in size! Thanks Kamal Is there any particular reason why you choose to boot from floppy. There is a perfectly good bootloader called lilo. Anyway the reason you are getting these messages is because you are booting from a floppy that thinks you still have your w2k/ntfs partitions. The easiest way to rectify this is to boot to desktop go to MCC - boot - boot disk and remake your floppy disk so that it will then know about your changed partition table. This is also true of any alteration whatsoever to your partition table, and very often it will fail to boot at all so next time you remove a partition make sure you make new boot floppies, it makes life easier. John John - since I expect to remove some partitions soon - do I take it that the order is MCC - remove partition Edit lilo - remove partition stanza run lilo re-make boot floppy reboot? I presume that you have to have re-run lilo before you re-make the boot floppy? Anne From memory, yes, I think I did mine on the command line , but yes, Once you have removed the partition, remake lilo.conf, not forgetting /sbin/lilo, remake boor floppy, and reboot. Then if you messed up in lilo.conf, no matter the floppy will get you back in. Otherwise it's an f1 job . John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
