What if his Windows partition was on hdb (the second disk)? What would the boot entry in grub look like then? -- John On Thu, 13 May 2004, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > Uttered Vikas.Bhasin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, spake thus: > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 7 > > HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hda2 1217 4864 29302560 f Win95 > > Ext'd (LBA) > > /dev/hda3 2433 4864 19535008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > > /dev/hda5 1217 1229 104359+ 83 Linux > > /dev/hda6 1230 2302 8618841 83 Linux > > /dev/hda7 2303 2432 1044193+ 82 Linux swap > > sh-2.05b# > > > > There are linux partitions but i'm not sure why the start and end of > > blocks are overlapping for different partitions. Looking at above output, > > do you think previous linux installation can be saved. > > No, the overlapping Linux partitions are just occupants of an > extended partition. Extended partitions let us get past the > 4-partition limit endemic to living in a DOS-legacy world. > > Looks like to me that you've just lost the GRUB/lilo bootloader. > That's easy to get round. > > Boot back into rescue mode. Run "fsck /dev/hda[56]" to make sure > that the Linux partitions are undamaged. Then reinstall GRUB: > > # grub-install /dev/hda > > You should be able to boot Linux. If your GRUB doesn't already point > to the Winders partitions, just add a clause like the following to > your "/etc/grub.conf" file: > > title Windoze > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > chainloader +1 > > Hope this helps. Cheery-bye. > > >
