[techtalk] Windows won't boot after installing RedHat 7
Hi, I bought Redhat 7 and installed it on my newly built computer at home. I meant to make it dual boot with Win98. Now my problem is that after installing Redhat I can't boot into Windows anymore... The partition is still there, i just can't access it. Not even when i use a boot disk or the win98 startup disk or the CDrom. When i try to boot that way, as soon as it tries to probe the drive, it hangs, and the HD led stays lit. I've reinstalled windows and linux a million times now, in different ways, this time using the latest anaconda update, but still it doesn't work. I just don't understand it, doesn't seem that i'm doing anything out of the ordinary, it should just work... I don't have much experience in linux. Is there somebody who could help me out here? It must be a common problem, but nowhere on the Redhat site do I find anything about it. I'll ask Redhat tech support to help me out, but I was hoping that in the 3 days waiting for them to get back to me, someone here would have a quick answer :) that would help me fix the partition... Thanks, Roberta ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Windows won't boot after installing RedHat 7
Just a little more information about my setup: The drive is a Maxtor harddisk The partitions are set up like so: hda1 * 1 - 931 FAT32 hda2 932 - 2482 extended hda5 932 - 934 /boot hda6 935 - 1543 / hda7 1544 - 1552 hda8 1553 - 2482 FAT32 Thanks, r ;o) -- Original Message -- From: "Roberta Voulon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Roberta Voulon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 101 20:49:12 -0500 >Hi, > >I bought Redhat 7 and installed it on my newly built computer at home. I meant to >make it dual boot with Win98. Now my problem is that after installing Redhat I can't >boot into Windows anymore... The partition is still there, i just can't access it. >Not even when i use a boot disk or the win98 startup disk or the CDrom. When i try to >boot that way, as soon as it tries to probe the drive, it hangs, and the HD led stays >lit. > >I've reinstalled windows and linux a million times now, in different ways, this time >using the latest anaconda update, but still it doesn't work. I just don't understand >it, doesn't seem that i'm doing anything out of the ordinary, it should just work... > >I don't have much experience in linux. Is there somebody who could help me out here? >It must be a common problem, but nowhere on the Redhat site do I find anything about >it. I'll ask Redhat tech support to help me out, but I was hoping that in the 3 days >waiting for them to get back to me, someone here would have a quick answer :) that >would help me fix the partition... > >Thanks, >Roberta > > >___ >techtalk mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Windows won't boot after installing RedHat 7
Hi Patrick, Thanks for your help. My boot partition is before the 1024th sector, I've had this problem also :) but this was a different problem, since i have trouble booting into Win98, not Linux. I do have an AMD chip though... the AMD THunderbird, 900mHz. Seems weird though that it would be because of that... i have no problem booting into linux. it's just that after installing Redhat 7 i can't access my windows partition anymore. it's like the system doesn't recognise it as a valid partition, and just hangs when trying to probe it. like I said i can't even boot in windows through any other boot medium (disk, cdrom) - bios is set up properly so it's not that at all. can't even get into dos because of this! because as soon as the boot disk probes the harddrive (even before it boots up dos) it hangs. It was a clean disk, I installed Win98 then Linux. Tried the other way around also, and reinstalling LiLo after installing Windows. Not sure why that didn't work out... but I don't really want to try that now, because it will mean giving up on my Windows partition and loosing all my data. I used both diskdruid and the linux fdisk that came with the installer, and also tried the automatic partitioner. For one of my first installations i resized the Windows partition, but it worked fine after resizing. Only after installing Redhat did it get screwed up.. Other installations i had enough free space, just made sure the windows partition was first on the disk. Help... Thanks, Roberta ;o) Original Message -- From: Patrick Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:56:21 -0500 >Well I made almost 1 billions dual boot computer and the only real problem is that >linux needs to be in the first 1024 sector of your hardrive or it won`t boot. >But I never had problem booting windows after installing linux. >The only similar problem I saw is with a AMD K6-2 which wouldn`t >boot linux even if it was on the first 1024 sectors of the HD. But it was a chipset >bug. I hope your problem is not one of this kind. > >Explain me exactly what you did. >Win98 was laready installed and you installed linux on a new >partition made with Disk Druid in the linux install. > >Did you use Disk Druid? >Did you resisezed a win parition? >Before installing did you have free space on your hard drive ? > >Give me more details, and I migth help, >well I hope so. > >Roberta Voulon wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I bought Redhat 7 and installed it on my newly built computer at home. I meant to >make it dual boot with Win98. Now my problem is that after installing Redhat I can't >boot into Windows anymore... The partition is still there, i just can't access it. >Not even when i use a boot disk or the win98 startup disk or the CDrom. When i try to >boot that way, as soon as it tries to probe the drive, it hangs, and the HD led stays >lit. >> >> I've reinstalled windows and linux a million times now, in different ways, this >time using the latest anaconda update, but still it doesn't work. I just don't >understand it, doesn't seem that i'm doing anything out of the ordinary, it should >just work... >> >> I don't have much experience in linux. Is there somebody who could help me out >here? It must be a common problem, but nowhere on the Redhat site do I find anything >about it. I'll ask Redhat tech support to help me out, but I was hoping that in the 3 >days waiting for them to get back to me, someone here would have a quick answer :) >that would help me fix the partition... >> >> Thanks, >> Roberta >> >> ___ >> techtalk mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > > ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Windows won't boot after RHL7 install
Hi Jason, my email to you just bounced: My lilo.conf is perfectly normal and ok. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message linear default=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22 label=linux read-only root=/dev/hda6 other=/dev/hda1 label=dos Lilo in itself runs fine, i have the same problem when i try to boot into windows from another boot medium. I don't get any error message, it's difficult to explain what happens since i never thought it could ever be impossible to boot from a boot disk. For example, i boot from my dos boot disk. My bios is ok (boot A: > D: > C:), and the disk boots up. Before I get to the dos prompt, it probes for my drive and it is at that moment that it hangs. The cursor just blinks, and the led stays lit. Same thing when booting from lilo or the windows cd. Now i have three boot disks, one windows cd, and one win98 startup disk, they all work fine before the installation of redhat 7 Any ideas?? Thanks, Roberta -- Original Message -- From: Angela Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:08:41 -0500 >I dualboot with an AMD Thunderbird every day. > >What does your lilo.conf look like? Do you get the option to boot to >Windows and it gives an error, or what? > >Jason > >-----Original Message- >From: Roberta Voulon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: None >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [techtalk] Windows won't boot after installing RedHat 7 > > >Hi, > >I bought Redhat 7 and installed it on my newly built computer at home. I [message truncated] ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
