Re: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-08 Thread Frank Carreiro
btw, you mentioned earlier you were multibooting as linux didn't have drivers for your printer. Which printer are you running? Brandon Dorman wrote: > Thanks Frank, > > I think I will have to completely overhaul my system. :-( I > can't afford the downtime right now due to a new seme

Re: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-08 Thread Brandon Dorman
Thanks Frank, I think I will have to completely overhaul my system. :-( I can't afford the downtime right now due to a new semester starting but should be able to get to it this weekend, for now windows is working fine if not my preferred environment.  Would it be ok if I did this: HDA (8g

Re: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-08 Thread Frank Carreiro
If it's an option I would strongly recommend starting over with the system.  It sounds like there are many more problems than could be easily dealt with in a timely manner. Here's what I've done in the past.  This has worked for 98SE, NT, 2000 and XP systems. Install Windows on your C: drive.

RE: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-08 Thread Brandon Dorman
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,"

RE: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-08 Thread Frank Carreiro
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

Re: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-08 Thread Pete Peterson
> Message: 7 > Subject: GRUB and Windows problem > From: Brandon Robert Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 07 Jan 2002 19:42:19 -0800 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > I've got RH 7.2. Just got a new harddrive. Let

Re: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-07 Thread Brandon Robert Dorman
Clarification: In title Windows > rootnoverify (hd1,4) > /dev/hda1 > chainloader +1 the part about /dev/hda1` is me guessing. But anyway my windows partition is /dev/hde1 anyway, in case that can help. Please I realize that e-mail is kinda unclear, I'm a bit panicked h

GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-07 Thread Brandon Robert Dorman
Hi, 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