Hidden system after PowerBoot stuff-up
G'day
I've finaly got RH9 installed but at a cost. Here's the lowdown: DELL Inspirion 8200 with one only HDD (40 odd GB). It's got XP Pro of cause (well I have to earn a living to support my RH play ok). I used OO Defrag to make room and have C: as NTFS (WinXP Pro sys drive) and a new ext3 linux partition and a new SWAP partition for RH9. Installed RH9 from CD. I used LILO and put it in first sector of the ext3 partition to keep XP loader as is. So I did not modify the MBR. All worked fine then I shutdown the PC and of cause it boots into XP and I can't find Linux. Not to worry I now use Start - Powerquest - BootMagic Tell it to boot Linux Note: This seems to have hidden the C: drive (XP System). It reboots and goes into LILO. I boot Linix and it works. If I choose DOS it goes to my XP loader and I'm presented with my usual choice. However if I now select XP it starts the M/S XP logo but then gets the BSOD (Yuk). Something about STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The session manager initialisation process terminated blah 0x000003a I think BootMagic has mapped the original C: drive to E:. I already set the dev/hda2 as bootable again in RH using fdisk. Note: /dev/hda2 ntfs (my XP not so Pro system) /dev/hda3 / ext3 RH9 (at last) /dev/hda1 swap /dev.hda4 ntfs (my XP userdisk for data etc) I have cdrw/dvd UJDA740 (dev/scd0) Question is: How do I recover the XP system on /dev/hda2 that used to C: drive? As a side: I don't have a floppy drive so how to I fake another device (like CD or FireWire or USB mem key or even virtual memory disk to look like one so I can make an old fashioned boot disk?? Many Many Thanks in Advance, DearK The Cleaner - Pretty Please with Sugar and Cream on Top. PS: I can get to Recover Console and edit the files on the XP Sys drive - but what? I'm thinking edit all references to c drive and change them to E. But the easier solution would be to be able to make the system think it's c drive! Right? :scratch: |
I think the probllem lies with where you placed your swap file ( I could be wrong) windows needs to on hda1...or you could try editing xps boot loader ntloader I believe or is it boot.ini
to point to the right place...if you need to get xp back as a last resort you could use recovery console and attempt to repair your xp install |
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