On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:14:57PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: | Hi Balbir, | | On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote: | > Hi, | > I have installed dos, win98 and debian on my system using GRUB as | > the bootloader. The installation was ok. But every time I boot
Good choice of bootloader's if I may say so ;-). | > into windows or dos and try to boot back into linux I get the | > Stage 2 error 17, that the info documentations says is due to an | > unrecogized partitions type. When I check the partition type in | > linux using cfdisk , it is reported as being of type "amoeba". I | > change its type to linux ext2 and write it to disk (Without losing | > any data on the disk) and the error repeats if I boot into win or | > dos. | | I'm not much of a guru, but I suspect that in your GRUB config file ( see | /etc/boot/grub/menu.lst ) you'll find a "hide" command for the linux parti- | tion, but no corresponding "unhide" command in the linux section itself. I saw different symptons when I tried hiding the linux partitions from win2k, then not unhiding them from linux. The partition table wasn't messed up at all, I just couldn't boot because the partition didn't exist. (That's what hiding does, it makes the partition SEEM to not exist) When I unhid the partitions it was fine. Actually, I could still see the linux partions in win2k (though the disks had weird properties and didn't function, as expected). As a result I just removed all the hide/unhide commands. Actually, on this system I was using grub from a floppy disk. I didn't want to overwrite the MBR since it is a company machine. At home I was pleasantly surprised to see grub able to boot linux when I installed it on the MBR (lilo couldn't). I haven't had any trouble with it, but I don't have plain DOS installed. Also, at home it is 2 separate disks. The hide/unhide didn't seem to have any effect. (Better, IMO than simply failing to boot since apparently my BIOS doesn't support it) -D
