Disk /dev/hda: 40.9 GB, 40982151168 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4982 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 2 3825 30716280 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1646 2562 7365771 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda6 * 2 14 104359+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 15 1645 13100976 83 Linux /dev/hda8 2563 2627 522081 82 Linux swap I think that you're right about the extended partition thing. I have everything I need off it so maybe I'll just reformat that partition Linux-style and reinstall XP later on the system or primary partition. I appreciate your help a lot. All of you people on the newbies list here are very friendly and helpful. I couldn't ask for a better bunch. :) Ammon On Saturday 12 July 2003 11:36 pm, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > Ammon J Christiansen wrote: > > I tried what you suggested: > > rootnoverify (hd0,4) > > chainloader +1 > > > > and > > root (hd0,4) > > chainloader (hd0,4) +1 > > > > It just hangs on the rootnoverify one. The root one gives the error: > > "Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7" > > > > Anyone know what this means or should I try my luck with GRUB > > You are trying your luck with GRUB. > > Anyway, type 0x7 is NTFS. > > I really am puzzled about you booting from an extended partition. I'm > pretty sure that just isn't possible in Windows. In fact, I just dug up > an MS Knowledge Base article about how this isn't possible. Have a look > at it yourself. > > <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314470> > > If you have your "boot partition" on a logical partition that's fine, > but your "system partition" has to be the first _primary_ partition on > the first drive. > > From the knowledge base article: > > On Intel 186-and-higher-based computers (only the "x86" line), the > system partition must be a primary partition that is marked active. On > this line of Intel computers, this is always drive 0: the drive that the > system BIOS searches when the operating system starts. > > Not that Windows XP would run on a 186 processor anyway :) > > I guess it's not a requirement if you're on an Alpha or an Itanium... > > It might be possible to fix this problem with Partition Magic, or even > maybe with qtparted. What you'd have to do is make the partition a > primary one instead of logical. It doesn't have to be the first primary > partition. But even then you might be out of luck, you'd have to find a > way to convince windows that this partition is the system partition. > > I'd be willing to help (in person) to see if some solution can be > reached, but your best bet might be to get any important data off of > there (using Knoppix, or just whatever Linux you have if you've got the > NTFS driver) and start over, this time with Windows on a primary > partition, preferably the first one. > > /Please/ send us the output of 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' with your next email. > (That's l as in 'L'.) > > -- > Andrew Jorgensen > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
