You will have to recompile the kernel for NTFS support in Linux.
Jeff Dickman wrote:
>
> John,
>
> You should be able to FDISK /MBR this will eliminate the Linux Boot Loader
> (grub)
>
> >From there, you can use a NT CDROM to reinstall/repair your system. You
> don't always need the ERD to fix NT problems things like boot errors are
> easily fixed with just the CD.
>
> A little note on lilo and grub... from my experience, they still don't
> support NTFS. So if you have NTFS, don't modify your boot sector. There is
> a command 'dd' which will dump your boot info to file. You can then copy to
> floppy, boot to NT, copy to C drive, and add to your boot.ini
>
> If you need more info, please email me.
>
> John - be happy to give you more details on repairing without disks, if you
> want them... I have done this myself too <sheepish grin>.
>
> -JD-
> jeffdickman(AT)home.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Slezak
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 4:44 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [newbie] Hosed my system
>
> Not that I can't recover, but I would like to get some insight to
> what I did wrong. Last night I decided to install mandrake 7.2 on my system
> that has 2 hdds with 3 paritions on each. The last parition on both hdd's
> was a software raid 0 from NT. The first 2 paritions on each hdd had a copy
> of NT 4 that I was duel booting between (acutally one was a backup copy just
> in case). So I had 3G of free hdd space on the second hdd, with the boot
> loader on the 1st hdd, ( so at worst I thought nothing would affect the 1st
> hdd). So in this free space is where I mounted the swap and system linux
> parition. And here is where I think I might of screwed up. I formated the
> linux parition with ext2. From the install guide it said I would eventually
> be given the choice to rewrite the mbr or if there was another boot loader
> then you can choose to install some boot files to the first sector of the
> boot parition. Then you can just add an entry in the boot loader for linux.
> Well this step never came up, it went ahead and just installed the
> lilo/grub. And from there linux is fine but I haven't been able to get back
> into NT( and of course I spaced making a recovery disk) My next step was
> just to reinstall NT back into the first parition on the first hdd but
> basically NT wasn't able to work with my drives anymore to reinstall NT. So
> here is where I need help, as far as I can tell I need to go thru the linux
> install and wipe out everything on my drives, exit, then reinstall NT then
> try reinstalling linux using some other file system than ext2?
