what's wrong with my HDD
I installed winXP and debian on my computer,
when i type fdisk -l, it warns£ºcan't open /dev/hda cfdisk, it warns£ºFATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive what's the crux? Also ,i tried to create a linux link file linux.lnx by: dd if=/dev/hda8 of=/mnt/hda1/linux.lnx bs=512 count=1(I have a swap partition and / partition hda8),and added a line in boot.ini c:\linux.lnx="Linux" I thought this way i can utilize the windows OS Loader to boot my linux system. But this wouldn't work, i got a blank screen. Is the above two problem related? Thanks. |
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Thanks for your comments.
I installed winxp,then linux(two partitions,swap and /),and grub in mbr instead of hda8. There seemed to be something wrong with the debian installer's partition tool,It failed a few times,complaining "can't create partition XXX",finally it succeeded,I don't know why. The system looks fine except the two problems I mentioned. It boots successfully via grub,but can't boot via windows OS Loader. |
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ftp://bmrc.berkeley.edu/pub/linux/re...ble-0.3.tar.gz http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/ http://www.partimage.org/ http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/download.en.html http://www.sysresccd.org/ Quote:
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After that your system starts with GRUB, you should be able to select WinXP, get the XP-loader and have an option there to jump back to GRUB :D. At least that's the way I do it with NT... |
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