It appears the problem is worse than I thought. I rebooted after posting that post and Linux came up with all kinds of filesystem erros, the whole, "you have 5 seconds to perform a manual file system check" after which, finding duplicate clusters, it scanned with something like, "Pass A1, B1," until I pressed Control-C which I shouldn't have and it ended up giving a message something like, "initd was done repeatedly too much" then I restarted. I remembered that I had used Partition Magic's bootmagic in the past and put in that rescue disk, and was able to boot into windows, where I am now. So I can't go back into linux just yet to get the rest of fdisk -I - it doesn't work under windows.
HDD is because I have my harddrive on the second controller with the jumpers marked as slave. I'm thinking I may try messing with those settings as well, set it to auto select or something. When booting, it shows: IDE0= Quantum (my windows drive), IDE3=WDC (Western Digital, the new drive) and therefore linux calls the first drive hda1 and the other one hdh (I know hdd is a cdrom drive, dont know about the other letters. I have a cdrom drive and a cdwriter drive that linux recognizes, hadn't paid much attention to drive lettes in a long time thanks to an awesome-working RH 7.2). I'll pull out my boot disk and try to boot into linux enough to run fsck and fdisk -i today, thanks for the help. I'll also try df to get the listing of the partition stuff and write it down for here. I will try to be more concise in future posts. -Brandon At 08:56 AM 1/8/02 -0700, you wrote: >I'm just starting to mess around with grub. Not very familiar with it >(yet). Here is something that could help. > >I had an instance where I was multibooting with Redhat 7.1 and Windoze >XP. Originally I had Windows 98SE and had enough. From Linux I deleted >the windows partition then rebooted to my XP cd and performed an >install. Once completed I inserted my 7.1 boot disk and ran lilo. This >overwrote the boot sector and now I can boot 7.1 or XP from lilo. Grub >should have a similar utility available. Perhaps reading the man page >would shed some light? > >BTW, my 7.1 root is hda1 or 2 I believe. Hope this helps. > > > > > >> >> >>I've got RH 7.2. Just got a new harddrive. Let's call it HD1, the new >>one HD2. /boot and / are on HD2, Windows and such is on HD1. I thought >>I installed GRUB on the master boot partition, but during the >>installation process it listed it as, "hdh5" because that's the first >>vfat partition on the second harddrive. Below is the pertinant portion >>of my grub.conf file in /etc/ It looked identical to the one in >>/boot/grub Input is appreciated, as I can't even load windows with a >>boot disk, and being in college I need to go in there to print as I have >>a Lexmark USB multifunction device with no drivers for linux... good >>thing the semester is just starting. Thanks >> >>splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz >>title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10) >> root (hd1,0) >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hdh2 hdd=ide-scsi >> initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img >>title Windows >> rootnoverify (hd1,4) >> /dev/hda1 >> chainloader +1 >> >>Sincerely, >>Brandon Dorman > > > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.303 / Virus Database: 164 - Release Date: 11/24/01
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