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Big booboo, please help!
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| ruscorp 2002-06-03, 6:26 pm |
| I made a big booboo while using KDE. I am new to the world of linux and have decided to start learning with RedHat. I dual boot between Win2K and RedHat. I use Sys Commander as my dual boot prog, not LILO so while I was in a KDE control panel, I think the system applet I saw something to remove LILO and like a moron I unchecked it (ignoring the warning like a typically novice). Next time I rebooted Linux automatically started so I decided to boot the puter with a win98 start-up disk and re-enable Sys Commander, but it could not read my FAT32 Win2K partation (now I'm panicking). So I decided to boot back to Linux and see if I could see my FAT32 partition in Linux which I mounted as /fat32 and I could. So I tried to open a simple text file that resides on the FAT32 Partition and I was able to.
Now what my question is: How come Linux can read the partition after what I did in KDE, but Windows says it's corrupted? What steps should I take to correct this? Thank you for your help. | |
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| can you give more info like : what is in your /etc/fstab file and etc/lilo.conf file you can use this to find out from the shell :
$ less /etc/lilo.conf and
$ less /etc/fstab | |
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| you can always restore your mbr with a win98 startup-disk with fdisk/mbr witch will reset your mbr so w2k will boot but you want be able to boot into linux unless you have a linux boot-disk | |
| Boulware5 2002-06-03, 8:20 pm |
| LOL, I've messed up my MBR PLENTY of times while dual booting with Linux. I imagine its quite common, especially with beginners. Now I don't have to worry about that as I have a separate box just for Linux. | |
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Originally posted by Boulware5
LOL, I've messed up my MBR PLENTY of times while dual booting with Linux. I imagine its quite common, especially with beginners. Now I don't have to worry about that as I have a separate box just for Linux.
I'm still dual booting my laptop and have removable trays for the pc's | |
| ruscorp 2002-06-03, 10:55 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by dpx
you can always restore your mbr with a win98 startup-disk with fdisk/mbr witch will reset your mbr so w2k will boot but you want be able to boot into linux unless you have a linux boot-disk
I already restored the mbr with the win2k recovery console, but no good. | |
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| are you still able to boot linux after restoring the mbr with the recovery console ?
...if your answer is yes than you did not restored properly or something is wrong usually w98 boot disk works for me you shod giveth a try... | |
| ruscorp 2002-06-04, 8:30 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by dpx
are you still able to boot linux after restoring the mbr with the recovery console ?
...if your answer is yes than you did not restored properly or something is wrong usually w98 boot disk works for me you shod giveth a try...
The Win98 boot disk is the first thing I tried. I sure boots up, but cannot read the FAT32 partation. The MS-RAMDRIVE loads to C: as a result. I think maybe I should try booting for the redhat cd and try a repair from there (now that I've erased Linux from the mbr too). What is it, option number #5 or something? | |
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| if you can boot into linux try to run /sbin/lilo see if lilo installs and try to post what the /etc/lilo.conf file looks like
mine looks like this (i have Red Hat 7.2):
prompt
timeout=50
default=Linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-2
label=Linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-2.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda7
other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=Win2000 | |
| ruscorp 2002-06-05, 12:11 am |
| I found out what the problem was! 
Some how, some way...I managed through Linux to hide the FAT32 partition. It was still there and in tact, just hidden.
I managed to fix it by putting LILO back and booting to Windows through LILO and when I opened my Partition Magic (thank God for that program), I unhide the partition.
A minor set-back for my Linux learning, but hey, you don't learn until you blow something up (hopefully your owe stuff and not the company's). 
Many thanks for your help. | |
| Boulware5 2002-06-05, 12:20 am |
| You really do learn by making mistakes. | |
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| you are the only one who can fix it, "we" can give you some suggestions
that was not a setback for you it was a step forward LOL |
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