Tino Meinen wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 11:46, Scott Taylor wrote: > > I THINK my boot partition is /dev/hda2 (which is where GRUB used > > to be), how can I tell whether it actually has the boot code in > > this partition, because I think this partition should be made > > active.
An active partition has no meaning at all for Linux, only for Windows. Most kinds of Windows won't boot from a partition that is not a primary one and active. > You could try a cd-rom linux distribution like Knoppix to boot into > linux and then mount the /dev/hda2 to see what is on it. Easier: Use the Red Hat Linux installation CD 1, and at the boot: prompt type linux rescue It will boot, find any ext2/ext3 partitions and mount them, if it manages to find a /etc/fstab they will even be mounted the way described there, and found at /mnt/sysimage. Do a chroot /mnt/sysimage and you're in your Linux system nearly as if booted regularly. Best regards, Martin Stricker -- Homepage: http://www.martin-stricker.de/ Linux Migration Project: http://www.linux-migration.org/ Red Hat Linux 7.3 for low memory: http://www.rule-project.org/ Registered Linux user #210635: http://counter.li.org/
