Re: spontaneous partitions type changes (GRUB)
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:14:57PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote:
| Hi Balbir,
|
| On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Balbir Thomas wrote:
| > Hi,
| > I have installed dos, win98 and debian on my system using GRUB as
| > the bootloader. The installation was ok. But every time I boot
Good choice of bootloader's if I may say so ;-).
| > into windows or dos and try to boot back into linux I get the
| > Stage 2 error 17, that the info documentations says is due to an
| > unrecogized partitions type. When I check the partition type in
| > linux using cfdisk , it is reported as being of type "amoeba". I
| > change its type to linux ext2 and write it to disk (Without losing
| > any data on the disk) and the error repeats if I boot into win or
| > dos.
|
| I'm not much of a guru, but I suspect that in your GRUB config file ( see
| /etc/boot/grub/menu.lst ) you'll find a "hide" command for the linux parti-
| tion, but no corresponding "unhide" command in the linux section itself.
I saw different symptons when I tried hiding the linux partitions from
win2k, then not unhiding them from linux. The partition table wasn't
messed up at all, I just couldn't boot because the partition didn't
exist. (That's what hiding does, it makes the partition SEEM to not
exist)
When I unhid the partitions it was fine. Actually, I could still see
the linux partions in win2k (though the disks had weird properties and
didn't function, as expected). As a result I just removed all the
hide/unhide commands.
Actually, on this system I was using grub from a floppy disk. I
didn't want to overwrite the MBR since it is a company machine. At
home I was pleasantly surprised to see grub able to boot linux when I
installed it on the MBR (lilo couldn't). I haven't had any trouble
with it, but I don't have plain DOS installed. Also, at home it is 2
separate disks. The hide/unhide didn't seem to have any effect.
(Better, IMO than simply failing to boot since apparently my BIOS
doesn't support it)
-D
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