Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?
Hi Doug, Don't know much about Linux, as I just installed ML8.1 myself one week ago. Trying to find help on driver install in this corner. With my system all install went well. You might look in your windows 2000 partition for the file BOOT.INI. This should be something like: [boot loader] timeout=0 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT=Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional /fastdetect The last number (3) is the bootpartition number for w2000. Try any number between 0 and the maximum partitions on your drive. The file is attributes h,s,r so under dos first revert those attribs to be able to see the file. (attrib -s -r -h and after edit attrib +h +r +s). Maybe linux has made your first partition a other number. So W2000 sees its partition on an other number also. Maybe this will help you a bit further. Jan van Maasdam. Doug Lerner schreef: Hi, No - I didn't do anything special. I started out with two partitions on my hard drive. The first one contained Windows 98 and the second contained Windows 2000. I decided to keep the Win 2000 partition so I clicked on the first partition, deleted it and then pressed auto- allocate. When I did that the Mandrake installer allocated Linux partitions to the area left by the first partition. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?
This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over with both Windows and Linux? boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/jp106.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/hda2 label=windows table=/dev/hda Thanks, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. Maybe, post your lilo.conf Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. We might see something, else its difficult to help Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?
hi, just curious, did you do something special with the way you partitioned your harddisk? your linux boot image points out to hda5 which is the first logical partition but your windows entry points out to hda2. i know that this is normal on some circumstances especially if the disk is a product of Ghost or something similar but here in the office 9 windows pc broke down due to some problem with Ghost. as i have said, this is just to satisfy my curiosity and no help is included ;-) ciao! Doug Lerner wrote: This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over with both Windows and Linux? boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/jp106.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/hda2 label=windows table=/dev/hda Thanks, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. Maybe, post your lilo.conf Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. We might see something, else its difficult to help Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?
Hi, No - I didn't do anything special. I started out with two partitions on my hard drive. The first one contained Windows 98 and the second contained Windows 2000. I decided to keep the Win 2000 partition so I clicked on the first partition, deleted it and then pressed auto- allocate. When I did that the Mandrake installer allocated Linux partitions to the area left by the first partition. If the Installer had said something like Warning: if you want to keep Windows make sure to keep it in the first partition I would have kept the Windows 98 and deleted the Windows 2000 partition. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): hi, just curious, did you do something special with the way you partitioned your harddisk? your linux boot image points out to hda5 which is the first logical partition but your windows entry points out to hda2. i know that this is normal on some circumstances especially if the disk is a product of Ghost or something similar but here in the office 9 windows pc broke down due to some problem with Ghost. as i have said, this is just to satisfy my curiosity and no help is included ;-) ciao! Doug Lerner wrote: This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over with both Windows and Linux? boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/jp106.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/hda2 label=windows table=/dev/hda Thanks, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. Maybe, post your lilo.conf Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. We might see something, else its difficult to help Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?
Doug, Check your address header. You are sending two copies of your mesages to the list. Your windows partition is at hda2 - the second partition on the primary hard drive. That's going to cause a problem. Windows insists that it be the first partition. Changing lilo.conf won't help. The only reliable way to set up a dual (or higher) boot setup with Windows is to install Windows first, let it format the whole drive and then grab as much of the free space as appropriate during the Mandrake install. If you've got bunches of stuff on the Windows partition, you may want to borrow another drive and copy the Win to that. Then reinstall Windows, reformatting the drive FAT32, copy your files back to that drive, make sure you've defragmented the drive and then reinstall Mandrake, having DiskDrake take the total space you need from the Windows partition,setting up your /, /boot, /home, swap, etc. partitions. Most of the stuff I've seen on dual booting does point this out - including the Mandrake documentation. I'm sure that doesn't make you feel any better at this point, however. Good luck. Terry Smith Hatchville, MA On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 20:21, Doug Lerner wrote: This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over with both Windows and Linux? boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/jp106.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/hda2 label=windows table=/dev/hda Thanks, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. Maybe, post your lilo.conf Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. We might see something, else its difficult to help Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com =_1009329671-11608-1600 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Windows won't start - any suggestions?
hmmnn... i remember that somebody already mentioned that windows stops checking for partitions on the first non-recognized partition and in your case that will be the first partition occupied by linux. but in my meager understanding, lilo was supposed to point to the bootable partition so windows should identify the second partition as the 'first partition' relatively. I know windows 'need' to be on one of the primary partitions of the first drive so that's another dead end. this is the part when i shut up and let others with experience come in. ;-) ciao! Doug Lerner wrote: Hi, No - I didn't do anything special. I started out with two partitions on my hard drive. The first one contained Windows 98 and the second contained Windows 2000. I decided to keep the Win 2000 partition so I clicked on the first partition, deleted it and then pressed auto- allocate. When I did that the Mandrake installer allocated Linux partitions to the area left by the first partition. If the Installer had said something like Warning: if you want to keep Windows make sure to keep it in the first partition I would have kept the Windows 98 and deleted the Windows 2000 partition. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wednesday, December 26, 2001): hi, just curious, did you do something special with the way you partitioned your harddisk? your linux boot image points out to hda5 which is the first logical partition but your windows entry points out to hda2. i know that this is normal on some circumstances especially if the disk is a product of Ghost or something similar but here in the office 9 windows pc broke down due to some problem with Ghost. as i have said, this is just to satisfy my curiosity and no help is included ;-) ciao! Doug Lerner wrote: This is my lilo.conf. I am not familiar with lilo. Does anybody see anything I might try before trying the more radical idea of starting over with both Windows and Linux? boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/jp106.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hda5 append= devfs=mount failsafe read-only other=/dev/hda2 label=windows table=/dev/hda Thanks, doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. Maybe, post your lilo.conf Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. We might see something, else its difficult to help Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
