On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:08:37AM +0530, Tiptur, Sathish (MED) wrote: > > I am facing a problem of a corrupted partition. > > My system is multiple boot system with Win NT, Windows 95 > and Red Hat Linux 7.1. I have configured the NT loader to > load either one of them. My harddisk was partitioned in > the following way: > > hda1 - FAT16 2GB > hda5 - FAT16 2GB > hda6 - Linux boot - 15MB > hda7 - Linux swap - 255 MB > hda8 - Linux - mount point is / > hda9 - FAT32 - 4GB > hda10 - FAT32 - 4GB - mount point is "/WinPartition" > hda11 - Linux 3.x GB - mount point is /home > > While setting up the dual boot configuration I used the > following commands. > > # dd if=hda6 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 > # cp /bootsect.lnx /WinPartition/. > > Then I boot the sytem in Win95 and copied the bootsect.lnx > to C:\ and modified the boot.ini as required. > > After this I am unable to boot the system in linux. It says > that hda11 is not proper. > > Is there something wrong that I did? Or is it a problem and > should such operation be avoided. Note that the partion to > which I copied the file bootsect.lnx and /home partition are > adjacent. > > Please let me know your opinion on this. > ---end quoted text---
Your system configuration is not suitable enough for a triple boot. You have only one PRIMARY and one huge EXTENDED parti- tion on which you made multiple logical partitions. You have space for only two boot records ... three OSs cannot fit here You may have to re-install the full thing ... For 3 OSs you need at least 2 primary partitions ... I would suggest to make 3 primary and one large extended which you can break up into extended logicals. All three OSs should be installed on primary partitions, so that boot records are all discrete. Using NT boot loader for loading is not a bad idea ... Please see "http://geocities.com/usmbish/hdi-linux-NT.tar.gz"; for a detailed How-Do-I. Use Linux fdisk to partition your system, and mark the parti- tions properly ... then re-install all three without further partitioning. Bish. -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Default Console Font LOST #063 Do you long for a change of the default font at boot up ? Look at the kbd fonts in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts installed by the "kbd" package". man setfont for details ... You may prefer to include the line in your.bashrc ... Try : $setfont /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/b.fnt.gz ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
