is a dual-boot setup so it has a
Windows partition and a Linux partition (plus factory-installed
recovery and utility partitions). dd_rescue copied a lot of data but
it complained when I ran fsck on the resulting file:
# fsck -y /media/disk-a/backups/hybrid/backup.img
fsck from util-linux
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Mike Bilow mik...@colossus.bilow.comwrote:
Filesystems (and therefore fsck targets) reside on partitions of the
disk, something like /dev/sdc3, rather than the entire device (or an
image of it). This is inherent in the design of the system and is
independent
Not only Dell desktops, but I just ran into the same issue of not being
able to boot from a CD on an HP machine, which boots fine from a USB stick.
Also had problems bringing up the BIOS with the keyboard plugged into a
USB hub but it worked fine when connected directly to the box for some
As long as we're picking nits...
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Michael ODonnell
michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote:
most filesystems do normally reside on partitions
but that's not actually inherent in the design of the system ...
Not inherent in the design of *nix systems, certainly.
/dev/sdc55882 29402 188932401 83 Linux
/dev/sdc6 29403 30401 8024436 82 Linux swap / Solaris
At first I tried dd_rescue to copy the entire device to a file on an
external 1TB drive. The device is a dual-boot setup so it has a Windows
partition and a Linux
to copy the entire device to a file on an
external 1TB drive. The device is a dual-boot setup so it has a
Windows partition and a Linux partition (plus factory-installed
recovery and utility partitions). dd_rescue copied a lot of data but
it complained when I ran fsck on the resulting file
David accidentally sent this to me instead of the list;
bringing it back listward...:
David Rose dr...@proviss.com writes:
Josh, thanx for the feedback. When I do the steps you suggest, grub
(v 0.97) gives me:
Possible disks are: hd0 hd1
Based on that, how would I configure my grub
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename.]
grub root (hd
Possible disks are: hd0 hd1
David Rose prov...@gmail.com writes:
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename.]
I'm composing this while down in GA dealing w/some family stuff
so I haven't been following the discussion too closely but I
wonder: Did you try that GRUB config file I provided?
It's derived from systems that I've worked with that are rigged
the same as the one you described and utilizes the
First, thanx to Michael for letting me know that I was sending in HTML.
I scaled down the XP section to:
root (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
and it still locks, but give me an error: Filesystem type unknown,
partition type 0x7
I will switch the drives back and make sure that the XP drive
John, does fdisk -l /dev/sdb wipeout the OS? I don't seem to have
anything on my XP drive anymore.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:03 PM, David Rosedr...@proviss.com wrote:
John, you are correct and I fixed my typo, however now it lists the boot
parameters and then locks up.
I tried changing
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 5:13 PM, David Rose dr...@proviss.com wrote:
John, does fdisk -l /dev/sdb wipeout the OS? I don't seem to have
anything on my XP drive anymore.
That should just list (-l) the partitions on /dev/sdb. Another
option is to use cfdisk (cfdisk /dev/sdb), which will
Assuming you still have Linux on the first drive and Windows on
the second, I'd try replacing your GRUB config file with this:
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are
Ooops! I cleverly reintroduced that chainloaded typo,
fixed here...
Assuming you still have Linux on the first drive and Windows on
the second, I'd try replacing your GRUB config file with this:
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have
disks to use. You want to
exclude the first disk. Also, during the CentOS installation there
should be a section where it will setup grub. Hopefully it will see
that you have a Windows XP installation and automatically configure
grub for the dual boot. The only thing I'm not really sure of is I
Hello -
I am trying to set up a Dell Optiplex that will dual boot to CentOS and
Windows XP. I am using two different SATA drives, one for each OS.
Initially, I had Windows as the first drive and tried to have the choice
using boot.ini. I have since switched the drives and am now trying
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On 10/08/2010 02:16 PM, prov...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello -
I am trying to set up a Dell Optiplex that will dual boot to CentOS and
Windows XP. I am using two different SATA drives, one for each OS.
Initially, I had Windows as the first drive
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:16 PM, prov...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello -
I am trying to set up a Dell Optiplex that will dual boot to CentOS and
Windows XP. I am using two different SATA drives, one for each OS.
Initially, I had Windows as the first drive and tried to have the choice
using boot.ini
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:16 PM, prov...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello -
I am trying to set up a Dell Optiplex that will dual boot to CentOS and
Windows XP. I am using two different SATA drives, one for each OS.
Initially, I had Windows as the first drive and tried to have the choice
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:03 PM, David Rose dr...@proviss.com wrote:
John, you are correct and I fixed my typo, however now it lists the boot
parameters and then locks up.
I tried changing it to (hd2,0) and it tells me it's an invalid drive so it
looks like it's seeing the drive OK.
Thanx
You should be able to load into the GRUB console and manually walk yourself
through the steps you are listing. Keep at it until it loads up, remember
the steps and put them in your .lst or conf file.
Good luck! Keep us up to date.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, John Welch jrw3...@gmail.com
I ran the "fdisk -l sdb" and it told
me that there was an NTFS file system with the correct amount of
space so it appears that it recognizes the drive.
I tried (hd1,1) and it gives me an "Error 22: No such partition".
How does one use the Grub
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:58 PM, David Rose dr...@proviss.com wrote:
I ran the fdisk -l sdb and it told me that there was an NTFS file system
with the correct amount of space so it appears that it recognizes the drive.
I tried (hd1,1) and it gives me an Error 22: No such partition.
Grub's
It is on /dev/sdb1 and (hd1,0) gives
me no error, it just locks up.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:58 PM, David Rose dr...@proviss.com wrote:
I ran the "fdisk -l sdb" and it told me that there was an NTFS file system
with the correct amount of space
of the distro, in particular that was the issue. It was a
quirk in the hardware... :0
I would really like to go back to Ubuntu. It feels a lot more modern, and
it supports my video out of the box. Can I install Ubuntu to be dual boot
with CentOS? That way, if I need some additional vendor
Anyone installed ubuntu to be
dual boot with centos? What do I look out for?
If you wanted to use a shared /boot between the two, it'd be a bit
messy... For one, Ubuntu uses menu.lst for its grub config, CentOS uses
grub.conf, with a menu.lst symlink to it, so depending on which distros
for EFI machines).
Philosophical question, I
sort of understand your explanation. Many linux distros are
tolerant to a
dual boot with windows, but not as it seems, to other linux distros?
Jarod suggested the same thing as you do with Windows - chain load
the boot loaders. That is, grub-1
On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone installed ubuntu to be
dual boot with centos? What do I look out for?
If you wanted to use a shared /boot between the two, it'd be a bit
messy... For one, Ubuntu uses menu.lst for its grub config, CentOS
uses
grub.conf
On Oct 21, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On Oct 21, 2008, at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why are these linices hostile to each other?
They don't agree on the best version and file layout for their
bootloaders. Bootloading and grub especially are among the most
On Oct 21, 2008, at 21:26, Jarod Wilson wrote:
First and foremost, you need disk space free.
While non-destructively repartitioning is possible with just a
commandline, the GParted LiveCD sure makes it easy if you can reboot
the machine:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?
to tackle a dual-boot would then be:
- Shrink your home partition down to make room
- Install the new system in an additional partition (hda8)
- Share the same swap partition (hda6) for both installs
- Share the same boot partition (hda1) for both installs
- Possibly share the home partition (but one
boot partition (hda1)
- You have a big home partition (hda7), with plenty of space free, at
the end of the disk
The easiest way to tackle a dual-boot would then be:
- Shrink your home partition down to make room
- Install the new system in an additional partition (hda8)
- Share the same swap
On 12/30/05, Zhao Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The whole dual-boot thing has been time-consuming, and I think it's time
for me to forget it and get some real work done.
I didn't have a chance to reply to this thread until now, but I
can't help but thing that the whole approach of trying
Note that Knoppix will use your swap partition. You should turn off
swap before you run QTParted.
You also should run QTParted as root. Normally, when booting Knoppix
you are a regular user. Just bring up an xterm or console, the su -
to become root, then turn off the swap:
swapoff /dev/hda6
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your suggestions.
Below is what I did.
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X server
So I started qtparted via K menu - systems, and tried to resize
hda4
On Friday 30 December 2005 09:42 am, Zhao Peng wrote:
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
2a xhost +
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X server
That will be fixed by step 2a added above.
So I started qtparted
On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 09:42 -0500, Zhao Peng wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your suggestions.
Below is what I did.
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
On my Knoppix 3.9 I can bring up a root console directly from the
Penguin Icon at the lower left (second icon from left)
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:42:38 -0500, Zhao Peng wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your suggestions.
Below is what I did.
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X server
So I
Hi,
Another thing you could do is to use Knoppix to mount and copy your 3 GB of
data to another partition that you are not going to modify, then simply delete
the partition that you wish to resize and remake it.
md
--
Jon maddog Hall
Executive Director Linux International(R)
email:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:42:38 -0500
Zhao Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your suggestions.
Below is what I did.
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X
solution to solve the problem above.
The whole dual-boot thing has been time-consuming, and I think it's time for me to forget it and get some real work done.
Thank you all again.
Zhao
On 12/30/05, Neil Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 30 December 2005 09:42 am, Zhao Peng wrote: 1
On Friday 30 December 2005 09:42 am, Zhao Peng wrote:
1 regular boot up from Knopixx
2 bring up konsole
2a xhost +
3 su -
4 swapoff /dev/hda6
5 qtparted
For step 5, I got a line saying qtparted: cannot connect to X server
That will be fixed by step 2a added above.
So I started qtparted
Hi,
I'm back to bug you guys on this thread. (BTW, It's very likely that I
may use some terms incorrectly, due to my unfamiliarity with linux.
Sorry about that. :) )
In case you may forget, let me repeat my situation:
only 1 hard drive, and only RedHat Enterprise installed on it, and no
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 01:10:44 -0500
Zhao Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Right now I'm having Red Hat Enterprise AS installed on my desktop
computer (which has only one hard drive). I'm wondering if I can also
put Fedora on it so that I can dual boot from either Red Hat Enterprise
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 01:10, Zhao Peng wrote:
Hi,
Right now I'm having Red Hat Enterprise AS installed on my desktop
computer (which has only one hard drive). I'm wondering if I can also
put Fedora on it so that I can dual boot from either Red Hat Enterprise
AS or Fedora.
I know
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:27:03 -0500
Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you need to install it to an existing drive with no free partitions, then
you'll need to repartition that drive. There are ways of doing this under
Linux, but I would not recommend this approach for a neophyte. Partition
On the sub-topic of partitions and dual-booting Red Hat derived Linuxes...
I know recent releases of Fedora Core (FC3 and later, IIRC) default
to using LVM for everything. I expect RHEL is going to go that route
eventually, too (if they haven't already). So, if you're using LVM,
the whole
Fred wrote:
The quick answer to that is *yes*. You can, using GRUB, set up as many
booting OSes as you like.
If you need to install it to an existing drive with no free partitions, then
you'll need to repartition that drive. There are ways of doing this under
Linux, but I would not
On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
-- Ben LVM LV VG PE, WTF? Scott
Ben, I know you're likely up on all the LVM TLAs, but for those folks
who'd want to know more, Bill Stearns did a great presentation of LVM
at last month's Dartmouth - Lake Sunapee LUG meeting, and expressed
On 12/28/05, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Partition Magic (aka PQMagic) does not support ext3 filesystems ...
... PQMagic will no longer be updated, since it was bought out by
Symantec ...
Symantec still sells PartitionMagic as a current product. I don't
know how often they update
Ben Scott wrote:
On 12/28/05, Dan Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Partition Magic (aka PQMagic) does not support ext3 filesystems ...
... PQMagic will no longer be updated, since it was bought out by
Symantec ...
Symantec still sells PartitionMagic as a current
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