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You might try "fdisk /dev/hda" assuming hda is your windows drive. You can then type "p" to see the partition table (type "m" to see all the commands) and look to see if any of your windows partitions are "hidden". For reference go to: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/hidden_fat.html http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/fhassel_windows_not_booting2.html Hope that helps... Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike@emc.com ----------------------------------------------------- Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. -----Original Message----- From: michael norman [mailto:michaeltnorman@ntlworld.com] Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:41 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Grub won't go Hi I have a dual boot system with two hard drives. W98 is on the first and SuSE 8.0 (at the moment) on the second. I was using 8,1 but for a few reasons decided to revert to 8.0. My problem is that having reinstalled both w98 and 8,0 I cannot boot either directly. What happens is that on boot the word GRUB appears and I cannot get any further. I can boot by using either the w98 or SuSE install discs ether of which will get me ti Lilo if i use the boot from hard disc option. Lilo is, or should be installed on the mbr of the first drive. I have tried fdisk/mbr from DOS but it made no difference. Can anybody suggest what else to try ? TIA Mike -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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Thanks for that. The problem was my stupidity in that I was trying to boot fron hd1 rather tham hd2. I must have looked in the bios setup half a dozen times beore I realised I had it wrong. Sometimes you just don't see what's right in front of you. Mike On Monday 20 January 2003 03:11, Cleary_Mike@emc.com wrote:
You might try "fdisk /dev/hda" assuming hda is your windows drive. You can then type "p" to see the partition table (type "m" to see all the commands) and look to see if any of your windows partitions are "hidden". For reference go to: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/hidden_fat.html
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/fhassel_windows_not_booting2.html
Hope that helps...
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