Hi, I have a laptop with windows XP and Debian sarge, the boot is from windows XP. I've transformed the debian ext3 partion in an extended partition with inside the orginal partition (I've used Partion Magic 8.0). The operation terminated with success and then I generated a new linux.bin to boot debian from windows but it doesn't work (on the screen appears only "GRUB").
I think that the ext3 partition is ok beacouse I can browse it with partition magic and if I boot with the debian CD I can mount (I found it in /dev/disks/ide1/part5) and browse it. Besides e2fsck doesn't report any error. With the debian CD (sarge 20040429) I tried to use the partition manager specifying to use the existent partition ext3 but I've the following messages: 1 - Filesystem was not cleany unmounted! you should e2fsck. Modifying an unclean filesystem could cause severe corruption (I press continue because I run e2fsck without error) 2 - This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout! Ported can't resize this (yet) 3 - The test of the filesystem with type ext3 in partition #5 of IDE1 master found uncorrect errors. If you don't go back to the partitioning menu and correct these errors the partition will not be used at all. What can be the problem? The extended partion I made with partition magic? An utility for windows, bootparts, sees it as type=f (Win95 XInt 13 extended), size= 36162315 KB, Lba Pos=44885610. The ext3 was wrongly moved by partion magic? But than how can I mount and use it! The boot sector of the ext3 partion was corrupted and than GRUB doesn't work? In this case, how can I repair it? Thanks a lot. Giannandrea -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
