With Partition Magic 5.0 you can make a two disk boot set that will allow
you to boot from your floppy drive. On those disks, is a version of Dos
and the PM program. At boot up, it may tell you that the partition table
has a problem, and ask you if you want PM to fix it. I have had it
correct such a problem, but THIS IS NOT always the case - -sometimes it
DOESN"T. If all boots well, you will graphically see your partitions (
both Linux and dos) and you can adjust according. I am only into Linux
some 6 months, but partition magic has been a real lifesaver to me.
goodluck,
rich
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hendrickx [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 11:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!
I've found out a little more about the nature of my problem (Linux on my
slave
IDE works fine but I can't boot Windows on my masteer IDE after installing
a
second Linux system). Basically I guess the partition table is all messed
up.
Running diskdrake reports "partitions sector # 15004773) (14652MB) and
sector
#12595023 (4737 MB) are overlapping". Those are at the end of my fourth
FAT32
partition and somewhere in the second Linux system respectively.
I also get contradictory information on the contents of the FAT32
partitions.
Everythings fine according to du, but df indicates that files aren't on the
partitions they're supposed to be:
root@MyLinux ~ > du -sh /mnt/DOS_hda1/
1.6G /mnt/DOS_hda1
root@MyLinux ~ > du -sh /mnt/DOS_hda6/
1.6G /mnt/DOS_hda6
root@MyLinux ~ > du -sh /mnt/DOS_hda7/
12k /mnt/DOS_hda7
My first FAT32 partitions contains my Windows 95 files and my third FAT32
partition contains a copy (in case I have to do something that would
destroy
the first partition). The fourth FAT32 partition is empty. Everything is as
it
should be here.
root@MyLinux ~ > df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb6 2.1G 1.2G 784M 61% /
/dev/hda1 3.6G 48k 3.6G 0% /mnt/DOS_hda1
/dev/hda6 3.6G 1.7G 1.8G 48% /mnt/DOS_hda6
/dev/hda7 3.6G 1.2G 2.3G 34% /mnt/DOS_hda7
/dev/hdb5 11M 3.1M 7.7M 29% /boot
/dev/hdb7 573M 428M 116M 79% /home
According to this however, the first FAT32 partition contains only 48k. The
third partition /dev/hda6 contains 1.7G, that might me a rounding error.
The
fourth partition /dev/hda7 contains 1.2G, although it should be empty. The
partition table seems to be out of whack.
root@MyLinux ~ > fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 467 3751146 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 468 1867 11245500 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 468 469 16033+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 935 1401 3751146 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 1402 1867 3743113+ b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8 470 752 2273166 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 753 784 257008+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda10 785 935 1212876 83 Linux
Here's the complete layout of my master IDE. Everything's as it should be
according to this.
Bottom line is that my partition table is all screwed up. Does anyone know
how
to fix it?
All help appreciated,
John Hendrickx
