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.

Here goes the /boot/grub/menu.lst file(minus all of the comments at the beginning):
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#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.

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

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