First of all, I have a dual boot machine: Win XP pro and SuSE 8.1. I have used Partition Magic (PM) and Boot Magic for years with no problems. Please note that since XP uses NTFS, I had had to create a small vfat partition to accommodate Boot Magic. During the install I told it to write Grub to /dev/hdb which is the drive I use for Linux (/dev/hda is for Win). After my somewhat successful fresh install of 8.1 last night (see previous post), I noticed that Boot Magic was not used anymore. It had been disabled somehow. The partition is also hidden since Win can't handle two primary partitions on the same drive apparently. Anyway, using PM I chose to unhide the partition (this involves rebooting BTW) so I could re-configure Boot Magic. Once this was done I re-enabled Boot Magic. When I rebooted I tried to start Linux and it couldn't - it just hung. I also find that I can no longer "unhide" the Boot Magic partion. I instruct PM to do so, then during the reboot when PM does it's thing, it says that the operation to unhide the partion is 100% completed. But when I boot back into Win, the partition is hidden again!!! ??? I've tried at least 4 times to unhide it w/ no success (even though it says it is successful). Now I can't disable BM. I suppose the easiest thing might be to just uninstall it and boot either OS from the SuSE "boot screen". But since I have enable BM once, even if I uninstall it, will Grub "take over"? I guess my main question is - did BM get disable by Grub? If so, how and why? I told it to install grub on my second hard drive - how does it even know about BM? I guess that really shows my ignorance where Grub is concerned - I've always used lilo before. So far, I have spent 5 days upgrading and/or installing 8.1. And I'm no where near done yet - I have to re-enter the nvidia war again, try to recover whatever wasn't installed from my "bad" install CD #3 (see previous post), and heaven knows what else. I've been using SuSE since 6.0 and it's never been this bad.....sigh. TIA, Mike ------------------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------------------------------- Recursive error message? "Scandisk detected an error in a long filename that scandisk cannot fix. To fix this error run scandisk for windows."
On Friday 17 January 2003 17:40, Cleary_Mike@emc.com wrote:
First of all, I have a dual boot machine: Win XP pro and SuSE 8.1. I have used Partition Magic (PM) and Boot Magic for years with no problems. Please note that since XP uses NTFS, I had had to create a small vfat partition to accommodate Boot Magic. During the install I told it to write Grub to /dev/hdb which is the drive I use for Linux (/dev/hda is for Win).
After my somewhat successful fresh install of 8.1 last night (see previous post), I noticed that Boot Magic was not used anymore. It had been disabled somehow. The partition is also hidden since Win can't handle two primary partitions on the same drive apparently. Anyway, using PM I chose to unhide the partition (this involves rebooting BTW) so I could re-configure Boot Magic. Once this was done I re-enabled Boot Magic. When I rebooted I tried to start Linux and it couldn't - it just hung. I also find that I can no longer "unhide" the Boot Magic partion. I instruct PM to do so, then during the reboot when PM does it's thing, it says that the operation to unhide the partion is 100% completed. But when I boot back into Win, the partition is hidden again!!! ??? I've tried at least 4 times to unhide it w/ no success (even though it says it is successful). Now I can't disable BM. I suppose the easiest thing might be to just uninstall it and boot either OS from the SuSE "boot screen". But since I have enable BM once, even if I uninstall it, will Grub "take over"?
I guess my main question is - did BM get disable by Grub? If so, how and why? I told it to install grub on my second hard drive - how does it even know about BM? I guess that really shows my ignorance where Grub is concerned - I've always used lilo before.
So far, I have spent 5 days upgrading and/or installing 8.1. And I'm no where near done yet - I have to re-enter the nvidia war again, try to recover whatever wasn't installed from my "bad" install CD #3 (see previous post), and heaven knows what else. I've been using SuSE since 6.0 and it's never been this bad.....sigh.
TIA,
Mike ------------------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com ------------------------------------------------------- That sounds a bit like my problem. I used PM to size down a NTFS particion, move another NTFS up with the WindowsXP system on it, and create a particion for Linux using Ext2. I installed SuSE8.1 without a problem, it used reiserfs instead, it boots and works OK (only my modem is not recognised), but now I can't get WindowsXP to boot again.using PM to make that hidden partition active, boot again, but instead of WinXP SuSE comes up. PM says error 1516, partition inproperly dismounted. I should rum chkdsk, but I can't since the partition is not visible. Even not from SuSE8.1, only another one is visible, even twice, under windows/c and under windows/d, same contents. I am really stuck. -- Frits Wüthrich Pentaxianado
On Sunday 19 January 2003 12:32, Frits Wüthrich wrote:
On Friday 17 January 2003 17:40, Cleary_Mike@emc.com wrote:
First of all, I have a dual boot machine: Win XP pro and SuSE 8.1. I have used Partition Magic (PM) and Boot Magic for years with no problems. Please note that since XP uses NTFS, I had had to create a small vfat partition to accommodate Boot Magic. During the install I told it to write Grub to /dev/hdb which is the drive I use for Linux (/dev/hda is for Win).
After my somewhat successful fresh install of 8.1 last night (see previous post), I noticed that Boot Magic was not used anymore. It had been disabled somehow. The partition is also hidden since Win can't handle two primary partitions on the same drive apparently. Anyway, using PM I chose to unhide the partition (this involves rebooting BTW) so I could re-configure Boot Magic. Once this was done I re-enabled Boot Magic. When I rebooted I tried to start Linux and it couldn't - it just hung. I also find that I can no longer "unhide" the Boot Magic partion. I instruct PM to do so, then during the reboot when PM does it's thing, it says that the operation to unhide the partion is 100% completed. But when I boot back into Win, the partition is hidden again!!! ??? I've tried at least 4 times to unhide it w/ no success (even though it says it is successful). Now I can't disable BM. I suppose the easiest thing might be to just uninstall it and boot either OS from the SuSE "boot screen". But since I have enable BM once, even if I uninstall it, will Grub "take over"?
I guess my main question is - did BM get disable by Grub? If so, how and why? I told it to install grub on my second hard drive - how does it even know about BM? I guess that really shows my ignorance where Grub is concerned - I've always used lilo before.
So far, I have spent 5 days upgrading and/or installing 8.1. And I'm no where near done yet - I have to re-enter the nvidia war again, try to recover whatever wasn't installed from my "bad" install CD #3 (see previous post), and heaven knows what else. I've been using SuSE since 6.0 and it's never been this bad.....sigh.
TIA,
Mike ------------------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com -------------------------------------------------------
That sounds a bit like my problem. I used PM to size down a NTFS particion, move another NTFS up with the WindowsXP system on it, and create a particion for Linux using Ext2. I installed SuSE8.1 without a problem, it used reiserfs instead, it boots and works OK (only my modem is not recognised), but now I can't get WindowsXP to boot again.using PM to make that hidden partition active, boot again, but instead of WinXP SuSE comes up. PM says error 1516, partition inproperly dismounted. I should rum chkdsk, but I can't since the partition is not visible. Even not from SuSE8.1, only another one is visible, even twice, under windows/c and under windows/d, same contents. I am really stuck. I just looked better into this, and windows/C and Windows/D are not the same, so that is OK. However what they show, are in reality Windows/D and Windows/E. Is there a way to instruct GRUB to show windowsXP as a boot option? That is really on the C drive. -- Frits Wüthrich Pentaxianado
On Sunday 19 January 2003 12:46, Frits Wüthrich wrote:
I just looked better into this, and windows/C and Windows/D are not the same, so that is OK. However what they show, are in reality Windows/D and Windows/E. Is there a way to instruct GRUB to show windowsXP as a boot option? That is really on the C drive.
OK, I found out how to ad it to GRUB. WindowsXP starts, but then stops again with two error messages. So it's an Windows problem from here on. Thanks for reading. -- Frits Wüthrich Pentaxianado
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