2k linux dual boot HELP!!!
Hi all I recently (yesterday) installed suse 7.3 on my vaio laptop. The laptop originally had 1 NTFS (primary) and one fat partition (partition) I told suse to remove the extended fat partition and create a new extended partition and format to reiserfs, and install itself to there. I didn't install lilo as I need to see if I could get all the drivers etc.. before I commited myself to running linux on it. Everything went well and booting into linux from a floppy was cool. When rebooted back to windows, it took an absolute ago to boot up and logon, with explorer crashing (what's new eh :P). When I eventually get logged on, if I try to open my computer, after about 5 mins it still shows the old D:\ drive. I know from installing dual boots before that windows should not be able to see this drive and I think this maybe what's causing the problem. Has anyone else had any similar experiences/problems that they managed to get sorted out TIA m:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 Feb 2002 18:43 pm, Matt Williams wrote: [snip] Have you checked the partition types? It's possible that your ex-FAT partition is still marked as being a DOS/Windows partition in the partition table. To check: go into Linux as root, and type "fdisk /dev/hda". Type 'p' to show the partition types, and note what's written by the 'System' column - the Linux one should be ID 83 (System: Linux). Chances are, if Win2k is detecting it, it's marked as some DOS/Windows ID. To change it, type 't' to change a partition type; then enter the partition number (which you got from printing it via 'p'), enter "83" to mark it as a Linux partition (so Windows won't recognise it as drive D:) Dan - -- I am so optimistic about beef prices that I've just leased a pot roast with an option to buy. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPHk4LZdDUnce+EgsEQLM5gCfRef8w8sOqVuvb3TC2ZmujOt5b3QAoLy4 n+wF2sb/3pRBweL8v+3d8tHd =V9Wd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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