Thank you . You were right removing the hide/unhide commands from the linux partition did the job. bt
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:52:42PM -0500, D-Man wrote: > 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 >
