WinME side not loading in a RedHat 9 dual boot system.
I'm new to the forum and linux and general so please be kind. I used partition magic 8 to resize and set up my partitions for the dual boot system. The Red Hat side works fine but everytime I try to load WinME i recieve the following errors: "The following file is missing or corrupted: A:\IFSHLP.SYS" which is followed by
"The following file is missing or corrupted: A:\SYSTEM\VMM32.VXD Type the name of the Windows loader (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32.VXD) A>" After doing a search in the forums for other people with similar problems I've noticed that LILO was not recognizing the first partition of thier hard drive. I do remember when I was installing RedHat that i chose the default boot loader (GRUB) and I made the WinME partition the default OS. Can anyone help me get into WinME? Any help would be greatly appreciated. CalKel2 |
Could you post your "/boot/grub/menu.lst" file.
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Here goes the /boot/grub/menu.lst file(minus all of the comments at the beginning):
__________________________________ #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img title WinME rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ___________________________________ Ok, that's it. I hope that this will give you an idea of how to help me out. Thanks. CalKel2 |
i probably shouldn't be commenting because i'm a LILO man, not grub, but you might try removing the comment in front of the first line.
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mcd,
After removing the '#' boot line and saving, I am still recieving the same error messages. Any more suggestions? CalKel2 |
try changing rootnoverify (hd0,0)
to root (hd0,0) |
peacebewitchu,
After chaging "rootnoverify" to "root" I'm getting another error message before the previous two: ___________ root (hd0, 0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x44 chainloader +1 Starting Windows Millenium... The following file is missing or corrupted: A:\IFSHLP.SYS The following file is missing or corrupted: A:\SYSTEM\VMM32.VXD Type the name of the Windows loader (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VMM32.VXD) A> ___________ CalKel2 |
from another ME/Linux user
Before you get excited about getting onto RedHat, it is no longer supported. Consider using Fedora Core.
I do use Linux F.C. (previously RH9) in dual boot with ME, but I made my default OS Linux, then would select Windows from the list at startup if I wanted. My drive was already partitioned when I bought the computer, so I am sorry I do not have experience with using the partitioning software... but maybe it accidentally erased something important...? How about that "A:/____" which makes me think it is looking for a floppy disk...? Once you get settled with Linux, you will likely want to use it instead of Windows. |
Well I'm using redhat mainly because that's what I use at school.
I checked out file type 44 and it appears that this is what is the result of using Partition Magic and GoBack together. It covers the entire partition that i gave to WinME. Does anyone know of a way to mount it so that i can at least retrieve some data in case I have to reinstall everything? CalKel2 |
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