Ian W. Wright wrote: > Thanks. The drive, which is an old-style 40GB IDE drive, is in the machine > and set up as slave to the Linux drive i.e. it should be hdb. > The computer also has a couple of CD/DVD drives which are set as master and > slave on the second IDE input to the board. At the moment the Windoze drive > isn't being seen by linux although it was when it was in the machine > originally - I originally had it as a supplementary drive for linux in this > machine but took it out to sort out another computer which is when I put > windoze on it as a stand-alone installation. > > /proc/partitions says... > > major minor #blocks name > 3 0 117220824 hda > 3 1 114945043 hda1 > 3 2 1 hda2 > 3 5 2273165 hda5 > 253 0 114945043 dm-0 > 253 1 2273165 dm-1
Right, so this shows that Linux doesnt know about the drive. Plug the drive back in as the primary slave and it should show up as /dev/hdb with one or more partitions. Once you can see it from Linux you need to tell your boot loader about it. This is the sketchy part. You should definately have a boot disk available while playing with this. The CD you installed Ubuntu from should work. I think you're using grub for the bootloader, can you verify that? The grub docs are pretty good and worth a read: <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html> You basically need to add a stanza to /boot/grub/menu.lst something like this: title Windows rootnoverify (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 That'll add an option to the GRUB boot menu called Windows, which will try to boot (hd1,0), which is grub-speak for /dev/hdb1, the first partition on the second IDE drive. So that's assuming that's the partition you've got Windows on. > and /etc/fstab says.... > > <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> > <dump> <pass> > proc /proc proc defaults > 0 0 > /dev/hda1 / ext3 > defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > /dev/hda5 none swap sw > 0 0 > /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf, iso9660 user, noauto > 0 0 To make the windows partition available in linux you need to add a line for it in the fstab, something like this: /dev/hdb1 /windows vfat uid=watchman,gid=seb,fmask=111,errors=remount-ro 0 1 That's if your login is watchman, and if your windows partition is formatted with the VFAT filesystem. It might be NTFS which is a bit trickier to deal with I think. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky Yes, we have a soul. But it is mechanical. -- Daniel Dennet ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
