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Newbie: Fedora Core 4 Dual hard drive boot problems
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| Hi,
I have Win2000 on hda1 and Fedora 4 on hdc1.
I must have re installed linux about 50 times, using all combinations
and never seem to get to boot from HD. I changes my boot device to hd0,
too boot up windows and hd1 to boot linux. However, i get GRUB
GRUB......displayed everytime I attempt to boot from hd1.
Here is my grub.config as created by the install process:
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage= (hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00 rhgb quite
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
root noverify (hd0,0)
chainloader + 1
There must be problem with the above conf file, which I am not able to
fix. Any pointers would be appreciated.
I am quite happy to force my boot thru BIOS change to hd0 and hd1.
I have tried to run grub from the rescue mode:
by following the steps below:
#chroot /mnt/sysimage
#grub
> root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6......... ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
and initrd /initrd-2.6......
The initrd gives error 16: inconsistent file system structure
It will be a great moment in my life, when I get this bloody thing
working...even once
Any help/pointers will be greatly appreciated.
Also, since I am quite happy with BIOS change to boot disk, is there a
way I can delete grub, since no matter what i select when I install
Fedora, it always seems to install grub irrespective?
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| correction:
SBeik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have Win2000 on hda1 and Fedora 4 on hdc1.
>
> I must have re installed linux about 50 times, using all combinations
> and never seem to get to boot from HD. I changes my boot device to hd0,
> too boot up windows and hd1 to boot linux. However, i get GRUB
> GRUB......displayed everytime I attempt to boot from hd1.
>
> Here is my grub.config as created by the install process:
>
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage= (hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
> root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
quite
> initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
> root noverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader + 1
>
> There must be problem with the above conf file, which I am not able to
> fix. Any pointers would be appreciated.
> I am quite happy to force my boot thru BIOS change to hd0 and hd1.
>
> I have tried to run grub from the rescue mode:
>
> by following the steps below:
>
> #chroot /mnt/sysimage
> #grub
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6......... ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
>
> and initrd /initrd-2.6......
>
> The initrd gives error 16: inconsistent file system structure
>
> It will be a great moment in my life, when I get this bloody thing
> working...even once
>
> Any help/pointers will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Also, since I am quite happy with BIOS change to boot disk, is there a
> way I can delete grub, since no matter what i select when I install
> Fedora, it always seems to install grub irrespective?
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| Lenard 2006-08-04, 7:36 pm |
| SBeik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have Win2000 on hda1 and Fedora 4 on hdc1.
>
> I must have re installed linux about 50 times, using all combinations
> and never seem to get to boot from HD. I changes my boot device to hd0,
> too boot up windows and hd1 to boot linux. However, i get GRUB
> GRUB......displayed everytime I attempt to boot from hd1.
>
> Here is my grub.config as created by the install process:
>
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage= (hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
> root (hd1,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00 rhgb quite
> initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
> root noverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader + 1
Errr........ Someone has been editing the grub.conf file and has made at
least one mistake........
Where is the "title" for the Windows boot choice????
title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Also some believe (I'm one of them) that it not a good idea to have /boot
(as a partition or directory) in a logical volume, a separate /boot
partition (ext2/3) is preferred.
--
"A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours,
Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005
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Lenard wrote:
> SBeik wrote:
>
>
> Errr........ Someone has been editing the grub.conf file and has made at
> least one mistake........
>
> Where is the "title" for the Windows boot choice????
>
> title Windows 2000
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
Not concerned about that, since I am happy to boot thru BIOS boot
device.
>
> Also some believe (I'm one of them) that it not a good idea to have /boot
> (as a partition or directory) in a logical volume, a separate /boot
> partition (ext2/3) is preferred.
Since my post, I have re installed Fedora one more time and this time,
I manually created partitions, now the grub.conf is changed as:
...
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/hdc3 rhgb quite
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
And i no longer get an inconsistent file structure error on initrd. I
now get the splash screen and when I boot, it simply exits to the
command prompt # without any messages!
I get the same results, whether i run configfile or load kernel and
initrd manually and boot within grub. And of course, when I try to boot
hd1 thru bios, I still get GRUB splattered all over the screen in a
loop.
PS: My partitions are
hd1,0 102MB /boot ext3 /dev/hdc1
hd1,1 1024 /swap /dev/hdc2
hd1,2 7162 / ext3 /dev/hdc3
>
>
> --
> "A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours,
> Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
> Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005
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| Jan Gerrit Kootstra 2006-08-05, 7:33 am |
| SBeik wrote:
> Lenard wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Not concerned about that, since I am happy to boot thru BIOS boot
> device.
>
>
>
>
> Since my post, I have re installed Fedora one more time and this time,
> I manually created partitions, now the grub.conf is changed as:
>
> ..
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/hdc3 rhgb quite
> initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
>
> And i no longer get an inconsistent file structure error on initrd. I
> now get the splash screen and when I boot, it simply exits to the
> command prompt # without any messages!
>
> I get the same results, whether i run configfile or load kernel and
> initrd manually and boot within grub. And of course, when I try to boot
> hd1 thru bios, I still get GRUB splattered all over the screen in a
> loop.
>
> PS: My partitions are
> hd1,0 102MB /boot ext3 /dev/hdc1
> hd1,1 1024 /swap /dev/hdc2
> hd1,2 7162 / ext3 /dev/hdc3
>
>
>
>
>
S Beik,
What is your hdb?
Normally /dev/hda => (hd0)
/dev/hdb => (hd1)
/dev/hbc => (hd2)
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
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| Sandgroper 2006-08-05, 7:33 am |
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"SBeik" <SimonBeik@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> PS: My partitions are
> hd1,0 102MB /boot ext3 /dev/hdc1
> hd1,1 1024 /swap /dev/hdc2
> hd1,2 7162 / ext3 /dev/hdc3
>
Post the configuration of all your HDDs so that people can see exactly what
configuration you are using , it seems you have left out some important
info.
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Jan Gerrit Kootstra wrote:
> SBeik wrote:
> S Beik,
>
>
> What is your hdb?
>
> Normally /dev/hda => (hd0)
> /dev/hdb => (hd1)
> /dev/hbc => (hd2)
Hi Jan,
I have two h drives:
First is configured on IDE! i/f as primary and has three partitions; on
which win2000 resides.
IDE1 secondary is not configured.
My second drive is configured on IDE2 primary and My CD/DVD drive is on
IDE2 secondary.
So if I understand your question, I do not have a hdb, instead I have
hda1, hda2 and hda3.
However, I am quite carefull not to allow fedora access my first drive,
since I have about 6 years worth of windows data on it.
On one occasion, that I allowed it to modify hd1's mbr.....it corrupted
it and I had to fixmbr thru windows.
Also, on one previous occasion, I was able to somehow install Fedora
without grub on hdc and were able to load fedora by changing the BIOS
load device to hd0 to boot windows and hd1 to boot fedora. I lost that
configuration and since have not been able to reproduce it.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Jan Gerrit Kootstra
Thank you in advance,
S Beik
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Sandgroper wrote:
> "SBeik" <SimonBeik@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1154741623.489849.280890@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
>
>
> Post the configuration of all your HDDs so that people can see exactly what
> configuration you are using , it seems you have left out some important
> info.
Please see my reply to Jan.
>
>
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| Jan Gerrit Kootstra 2006-08-05, 7:22 pm |
| SBeik wrote:
> Jan Gerrit Kootstra wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi Jan,
>
> I have two h drives:
>
> First is configured on IDE! i/f as primary and has three partitions; on
> which win2000 resides.
> IDE1 secondary is not configured.
>
> My second drive is configured on IDE2 primary and My CD/DVD drive is on
> IDE2 secondary.
>
> So if I understand your question, I do not have a hdb, instead I have
> hda1, hda2 and hda3.
>
> However, I am quite carefull not to allow fedora access my first drive,
> since I have about 6 years worth of windows data on it.
>
> On one occasion, that I allowed it to modify hd1's mbr.....it corrupted
> it and I had to fixmbr thru windows.
>
> Also, on one previous occasion, I was able to somehow install Fedora
> without grub on hdc and were able to load fedora by changing the BIOS
> load device to hd0 to boot windows and hd1 to boot fedora. I lost that
> configuration and since have not been able to reproduce it.
>
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> S Beik
>
S Beik,
I would think that you should refer to the partitions as
(hd2,0) for /boot
(hd2,1) for swap
(hd2,2) for /
I might be mistaken. Never used another device to boot then the first
IDE master.
Kind regards,
Jan Gerrit Kootstra
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| Sandgroper 2006-08-05, 7:22 pm |
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"SBeik" <SimonBeik@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have two h drives:
>
> First is configured on IDE! i/f as primary and has three partitions; on
> which win2000 resides.
> IDE1 secondary is not configured.
>
> My second drive is configured on IDE2 primary and My CD/DVD drive is on
> IDE2 secondary.
>
> So if I understand your question, I do not have a hdb, instead I have
> hda1, hda2 and hda3.
>
> However, I am quite carefull not to allow fedora access my first drive,
> since I have about 6 years worth of windows data on it.
>
> On one occasion, that I allowed it to modify hd1's mbr.....it corrupted
> it and I had to fixmbr thru windows.
>
> Also, on one previous occasion, I was able to somehow install Fedora
> without grub on hdc and were able to load fedora by changing the BIOS
> load device to hd0 to boot windows and hd1 to boot fedora. I lost that
> configuration and since have not been able to reproduce it.
Ok so this is what your configuration should look like if you have 3
partitions on your hda . from the info you have supplied.
( this is how it really should be configured for 3 partitions )
hda ( IDE Primary - Master )
hda1 ----------> Win2000 ( active partition to boot from )
hda2-----------> Extended partition
hda3 ----------> drive 1 in extended partition
hda4 ---------> drive 2 in extended partition
hdb ( IDE Secondary - Master )
not configured
CD/DVD drive (Secondary - Slave )
All you really need to do is install FC4 on hdb in the configuration of
/boot 100 Mb ( hdb1 )
/swap 512 Mb (hdb2)
/ <balance of hdb> (hdb3)
)
When you install FC4 , use Grub to install the bootloader on the first drive
(hda) and everything should work OK.
You should be able to reconfigure your partitions and install FC4 in the
above configuration without touching any of the data on your Win2000
partition.
Once you install FC4 , then on first boot up , press [Escape] to get to the
Grub boot menu and then boot into FC4.
Once you are in FC4 , you will have to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file
and remove the command of "hiddenmenu" by adding a comment in front of the
statement , like :
# hiddenmenu
This will allow you to have access to the Grub boot menu on boot up.
You could install FC4 on hda3 or hda4 , but it could get messy and it would
be better to have FC4 on it's own HDD.
I have a similar configuration as above with WinXP and FC5 , I have only 2
partitions on hda and the same type of partitions on hdb , the only
difference I have is that I have hda and hdb on the primary IDE channel one
as a master ( hda ) and the other a slave (hdb ).
It if is at all possible , you should reconfigure your drives on the IDE
channels like so :
hda ------> Primary - Master ( existing )
hdb -------> Primary - Slave
CD/DVD ---------> Secondary - Master
If you can't change any of your system around , then it shouldn't worry you
too much , it will still work and you won't notice that much difference.
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Sandgroper wrote:
[...]
It if is at all possible , you should reconfigure your drives on the
IDE
channels like so :
hda ------> Primary - Master ( existing )
hdb -------> Primary - Slave
CD/DVD ---------> Secondary - Master
If you can't change any of your system around , then it shouldn't worry
you
too much , it will still work and you won't notice that much
difference.
___
Hi,
I have just reconfigured my system as above, reloaded Fedora 4, with
standard options: remove all partitions on hdb, automatic partitioning
of hdb and grub install on hda's mbr. The system boots into windows,
without any sign of grub. When I change my bios to boot from hd1=hdb, I
again get GRUB displayed in a continious loop.
Changing my drives as you suggested seems to have made no difference.
I will now try and rescue boot and see what the grub.conf looks like
and will report accordingly.
Regards,
Sbeik
>
>
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| Sandgroper 2006-08-06, 1:24 am |
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"SBeik" <SimonBeik@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Sandgroper wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> It if is at all possible , you should reconfigure your drives on the
> IDE
> channels like so :
>
> hda ------> Primary - Master ( existing )
> hdb -------> Primary - Slave
>
> CD/DVD ---------> Secondary - Master
>
> If you can't change any of your system around , then it shouldn't worry
> you
> too much , it will still work and you won't notice that much
> difference.
> ___
> Hi,
>
> I have just reconfigured my system as above, reloaded Fedora 4, with
> standard options: remove all partitions on hdb, automatic partitioning
> of hdb and grub install on hda's mbr. The system boots into windows,
> without any sign of grub. When I change my bios to boot from hd1=hdb, I
> again get GRUB displayed in a continious loop.
>
> Changing my drives as you suggested seems to have made no difference.
>
> I will now try and rescue boot and see what the grub.conf looks like
> and will report accordingly.
Change the boot sequence in the Bios back to boot from the CD/DVD first and
then hda , because the FC4 installation is there and you will need to boot
up using the CD/DVD to boot into rescue mode.
You will have to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to comment out ( use
the # ) the hiddenmen command so that the Grub menu screen shows on boot
up.
ie use :
# hiddenmen
I don't know why Fedora does this , every time people create a dual boot
system with Fedora , it puts the hiddenmen command it the grub.conf file to
hide the Grub menu on boot up and it boots to the default OS set during
installation , this hiddenmen command causes a bit of a headache for the
people who are not used to linux.
I think that could have been one of your main problems , the hiddenmenu
command has hidden the Grub menu from you and Grub times out and boots
straight into your Win2000 system.
During the installation , you should really have done the partitioning by
using the Custom option instead of the automatic option so that you can have
a greater control over the partitioning of hdb.
And from what you have written so far , you could have also re-partitioned
and re-formatted your other partitions of hda3 and hda4 during the
installation to clean these partitions up and remove the leftover stale FC4
installations.
Can you post the contents of your grub.conf file so people can see what
exactly FC4 has put in there and a listing of the partitions on hda and hdb.
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Sandgroper wrote:
> "SBeik" <SimonBeik@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1154820509.746683.276880@n13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Change the boot sequence in the Bios back to boot from the CD/DVD first and
> then hda , because the FC4 installation is there and you will need to boot
> up using the CD/DVD to boot into rescue mode.
> You will have to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to comment out ( use
> the # ) the hiddenmen command so that the Grub menu screen shows on boot
> up.
> ie use :
> # hiddenmen
> I don't know why Fedora does this , every time people create a dual boot
> system with Fedora , it puts the hiddenmen command it the grub.conf file to
> hide the Grub menu on boot up and it boots to the default OS set during
> installation , this hiddenmen command causes a bit of a headache for the
> people who are not used to linux.
> I think that could have been one of your main problems , the hiddenmenu
> command has hidden the Grub menu from you and Grub times out and boots
> straight into your Win2000 system.
>
> During the installation , you should really have done the partitioning by
> using the Custom option instead of the automatic option so that you can have
> a greater control over the partitioning of hdb.
BINGO!;-)
At long last, I have managed to get my configuration to work. The main
problem, or more accurately the bug with installing Fedora Core 4 is
the automatic partitioning. This option simply does not work, when one
has two drives, one with any operating system (it seems) on hda and the
second being either hdb, hdc or i suspect hdd.
The main problem is that initrd causes an abort with Error 16 :
Inconsistent filesystem structure. Asif the system gets confused about
it own auto configured partitioning.
So after manually partitioning my second hard drive and this time
configuring Grub to modify my MBR on hda; the working grub.conf looks
like this:
grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu **
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
** I have of course deleted this option, since as you have pointed out,
it gets put in irrespective of install options for this particular type
of two drive configuartion.
Now I get the grub menu at boot up, giving me the option of loading
Fedora or windows and both work fine.
Thanks for all the help.
Now just one last question?
How do I enable this configuration to allow me to access my Windows
data?
I have found that Knoppix automatically allows me not only to have
access to my windows data, it also allows me to access windows media
formats.
When I have tried to mount my windows partitions in the past, I have
got error "ntfs" is invalid format or some similar error.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regrads,
SBeik
PS: I am posting this reply thru Linux;-)
> And from what you have written so far , you could have also re-partitioned
> and re-formatted your other partitions of hda3 and hda4 during the
> installation to clean these partitions up and remove the leftover stale FC4
> installations.
>
> Can you post the contents of your grub.conf file so people can see what
> exactly FC4 has put in there and a listing of the partitions on hda and hdb.
>
>
>
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>
> Sandgroper wrote:
>
> BINGO!;-)
>
> At long last, I have managed to get my configuration to work. The main
> problem, or more accurately the bug with installing Fedora Core 4 is
> the automatic partitioning. This option simply does not work, when one
> has two drives, one with any operating system (it seems) on hda and the
> second being either hdb, hdc or i suspect hdd.
>
> The main problem is that initrd causes an abort with Error 16 :
> Inconsistent filesystem structure. Asif the system gets confused about
> it own auto configured partitioning.
>
> So after manually partitioning my second hard drive and this time
> configuring Grub to modify my MBR on hda; the working grub.conf looks
> like this:
>
> grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
> file
> # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> # root (hd1,0)
> # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb3
> # initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu **
> title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
> root (hd1,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
> title Windows 2000
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
> ** I have of course deleted this option, since as you have pointed out,
> it gets put in irrespective of install options for this particular type
> of two drive configuartion.
>
> Now I get the grub menu at boot up, giving me the option of loading
> Fedora or windows and both work fine.
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
> Now just one last question?
>
> How do I enable this configuration to allow me to access my Windows
> data?
>
> I have found that Knoppix automatically allows me not only to have
> access to my windows data, it also allows me to access windows media
> formats.
>
> When I have tried to mount my windows partitions in the past, I have
> got error "ntfs" is invalid format or some similar error.
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regrads,
>
> SBeik
> PS: I am posting this reply thru Linux;-)
>
It's good to hear that you have managed to get FC4 working properly.
Your grub.conf file looks goods and everything appears OK.
Yeah , even the smallest errors can cause wide spread problems in Linux and
it leaves you scratching your head for days trying to figure out how to fix
it.
When installing Linux , it is always best to manually partition your
drives , especially if you have two or more drive on the system.
As with mounting your Win2000 partition to get access to it , there are a
number of ways to do it and it can be a bit fiddley when a NTFS partition
is involved.( I assume that you have NTFS on your Win2000 partition )
You can mount the partition manually after you boot up or you can
automatically mounted it on boot up.
Firstly it would be better to mount it manually and then if things work out
OK , then you can set it up to mount automatically on boot up.
I assume that you don't have much experience with linux to make it easy to
follow.
A - Manually mounting a partition
At a command line :
1) Create a directory in the /mnt folder , say something like
/mnt/win2000
2) Use the mount command to mount the win2000 partition in /mnt/win2000
directory :
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2000
( or mount auto /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2000)
Then issue the mount command by itself to check that the partition is
mounted ,
ie ....
mount
it should come up with something like :
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/win2000 type ntfs (rw)
When you want to unmount the win2000 partition , use the command :
umount /mnt/win2000
( note umount is spelt correctly and it's not a typo )
Then issue the mount command again to see if the partition has been
unmounted.
B- Automatically mounting a partition
To automatically mount a partition on boot up , you will need to put a entry
into the /etc/fstab file to do the mounting.
As with the case of using the /mnt/win2000 directory use :
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win2000 auto exec,noauto,users,rw 0 0
( the last 2 entries is zero .. zero )
To mount the partition as a disk itself you will need create a directory
like /win2000 and then place this entry in the /etc/fstab file :
/dev/hda1 /win2000 ntfs defaults 0 0
Some times a ntfs partition can be a bit awkward , so you may have to play
around with some to the options to get it working properly , if all else
fails remove the ntfs entry and replace it with auto to get FC4 to detect
the file system.
If you have a fat32 file system with win2000 , then substitute ntfs with
vfat.
I hope it all works out and you can get your Win 2000 partition mounted
without too much problem.
True Multitasking is having three computers and a chair with wheels.
Sandgroper
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