Am Sonntag 17 Juni 2007 18:49 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Hi all, > I have a long running Windows machine that I had previously > attempted to make duel boot using the Windows boot loader mostly as an > experiment. It's not my first dual boot. I've got 4 others that use > grub and they all work fine. This machine, however, never did boot > Linux and as it wasn't a high priority I just let it go and ran > Windows on it as needed. However I now need to get it running and want > to switch it over to grub as I doubt I'll be running windows on it > very much in the future so I have a few questions. > > The first problem I ran into on this machine was that immediately > after finds my kernel and starts booting I get maybe 1 or 2 lines that > are good but then the screen becomes unreadable. The text characters > are highly garbled and there are columns of dots all over the screen. > The card is an NVidia NV18 GeForce4 MX 400. > > Is there possibly a boot line option to get the system to write > these characters cleanly? > > The second problem is that after the boot gets started I get a > kernel panic. As background the disk layout of this machine, as viewed > from within Linux booted from an install CD, looks roughly like this: > > /dev/hde1 * Blocks=1-3824 ID=7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hde2 Blocks=3825-19457 ID=5 Extended > /dev/hde5 Blocks=3825-3837 ID=83 Linux > /dev/hde6 Blocks=3838-4020 ID=83 Linux > /dev/hde7 Blocks=4021-7668 ID=83 Linux > /dev/hde8 Blocks=7669-10218 ID=7 HPFS/NTFS > > The last NTSF partition is just data. > > The Linux partitions should be boot, swap and the system, in that > order. I wanted to double check that I could load grub and stop using > the Windows boot loader by using something like these commands: >
If /dev/hde6 is your swap, shouldn't it have the ID 82 (Linux swap / Solaris)?
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