ntoskrnl.exe

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue May 18 16:53:36 UTC 2004



Sean Estabrooks wrote:

>On Tue, 18 May 2004 10:40:27 -0500
>Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
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>>Sean Estabrooks wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 18 May 2004 01:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
>>>boby <bobysandz at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>>Hi
>>>>I installed fedora after i had installed win2000
>>>>and now i get error when i want to start win2000 from
>>>>grub boot loader .following line is from my grub.conf
>>>>should i recover from windows recovery console or i
>>>>should change some thing in grub conf.
>>>>
>>>>title WINDOWS 2000
>>>>       rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>>>       chainloader +1
>>>>
>>>>and here is my partition table :
>>>>/dev/hda1   *      1461      3500  16386300    c 
>>>>Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
>>>>/dev/hda2          3501      4866  10972395   a5 
>>>>FreeBSD
>>>>/dev/hda3             1        26    208813+  83 
>>>>Linux
>>>>/dev/hda4            27      1460  11518605    5 
>>>>Extended
>>>>/dev/hda5            27        91    522081   82 
>>>>Linux swap
>>>>/dev/hda6            92      1460  10996461   83 
>>>>Linux
>>>>
>>>>thanks for help 
>>>>
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>This seems to be a known problem but i'm not sure of the proper fix.
>>>Would you please test the following two changes and let us know if either 
>>>of them work or not:
>>>
>>>Modify the rootnoverify line above to:
>>>
>>>rootnoverify (hd0, 3)
>>>
>>>and if that doesn't work please try:
>>>
>>>rootnoverify (hd0,4)
>>>
>>>Hope this helps.
>>>Sean.
>>>
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>>You are telling him to try to boot from the extended partition ---> no 
>>way, not a filesystem here.
>>Then you have him try the linux swap partition --> even worse.
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>No you are wrong.   
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>>(hd0,0) is hda1 (FAT32)
>>(hd0,1) is hda2 )FreeBSD)
>>(hd0,2) is hda3 (Linux)
>>(hd0,5) is hda5 (Linux)
>>These are the only possible choices, and his Windows 2000 can only 
>>possibly reside on hda1 or hda2 (probably on hda1).
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>No you are wrong.
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>>He is trying to boot Windows 2000 which should be NTFS and the partition 
>>table shows it as FAT32.
>>This may be the problem, and if he allowed the system to do an 
>>auto-partition when installing it may have corrupted the partition table.
>>A corrupt partition table may prevent recovery.
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>Please don't try to disuade him from trying.   It may very well work 
>for him.   
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>Cheers,
>Sean.
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I am not trying to dissuade him from anything.  I am pointing out your errors.


You are telling me I am wrong, now show me how my statements are wrong.





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