Fw: [SLE] URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning
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----- Original Message ----- From: "James Philp" <linuxjames2003@yahoo.com> To: "Catimimi" <Catimimi@libertysurf.fr>; <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning
Hi,
Well, first partition (c) win xp main (7GB or so?) second partition (f) logical ntsf (15 GB) then linux (15GB or so). I'm not sure about the technical details here but i think before the linux one there was also a small swap partition for linux.
the idea was to take free space from the (f) partition and create a small (40MB) fat32 partition there between (f) and the linux ones.
OK, but when you do that the number of the linux partition becomes 7 instead of 6 and grub is no longer able to boot !!
I would suggest that using partition magic (Dos floppy) you come back to your previous partitionning. Your system should boot again with grub. If you don't have rescue disks for partitionmagic, tell me, it is possible to run the DOS version of partitionmagic from the CD.
Then two possibilities : 1° the safe one, create your fat32 partition by taking free space at the end of the linux partition, the number of this one will not change and you'll be able to boot with grub. 2° if you really want to take free space from your ntfs partition, do the following : - install grub on a floppy, in order to always be able to boot your system, run : grub-install /dev/fd0 - edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and increase by one the number of the linux partition (if you are not sure send me your menu.lst file and I'll tell you) - repartition as you did, your system should be able to reboot.
If not you can come back and boot with the floppy.
But can I tell you that I've such a dual boot and that with Paragon Ext2FS anywhere, I'm able to mount with a drive letter, read and write Linux partition under windows XP.
Catimimi.
cheers, j.
Catimimi <Catimimi@libertysurf.fr> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Philp"
To: Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: [SLE] URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning
Dear all,
PLEASE! Please - any ideas to save my system are enormously appreciated.
I am running a dual XP/SuSE 8.2 on a Toshiba laptop. This morning I tried to resize one of the windows ntsf partitions with partition magic
----- Original Message ----- From: "Catimimi" <Catimimi@libertysurf.fr> To: "James Philp" <linuxjames2003@yahoo.com> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] URGENT HELP! Crashed my system while repartitioning thereby
creating a new small fat32 partition. The idea was to use this new partition to share files between win and linux more easily without having to mail them to myself.
partition magic went ok, then it rebooted and did the partition which
again went ok but when it rebooted the second time, grub goes into a simple bash mode and there it stays. the loader doesn't start and i don't know how to get any system to load or how to restore things to normal.
i'm pretty new to all of this, so gentle instructions would be great!
many many thanks, j.
Please tell me what were your partitions before and after repartitionning. For instance : partition 1 : main windows XP .....
After reply I think I'll be able to tell you how to recover.
Catimimi.
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