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From: Bryan Simmons <bsimmo1@gl.umbc.edu>
To: Abhijit Vijay <abhijit_v@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: problems with dual boot
Date: 24 Oct 2002 17:24:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035494683.31016.116.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021024211548.8355.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com>

Hozed.

It's my experience that it's better to install Linux last.
Never trust a Windoze app to launch Linux...

One thing you might try.  Begin reinstallation of RedHat except
look for an option that will allow you reinstal LILO or GRUB.

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 17:15, Abhijit Vijay wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My computer (which has Windows 2000/Red Hat Linux 7.0)
> Dual Boot with a WinNT loader, has developed problems.
> Someone else was using it and now when I select the
> Linux option at boot time, it says that some
> kernel.exe file is missing and does not boot. Windows
> boots fine. I tried using a linux boot floppy  from
> another Linux machine (Redhat 6.2) to get into the
> linux partition and install LILO (thinking that it
> might be a problem with the loader), but could not
> find the boot partition mounted. Doing fdisk /dev/hda
> gives me the error "Unable to load /dev/hda"
> 
> Could someone suggest a way out?
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> Abhijit.
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-24 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-24 10:46 Journaling File Systems Bryan Simmons
2002-10-24 14:00 ` Paul Furness
2002-10-24 18:21   ` Petre Bandac
2002-10-24 21:15     ` problems with dual boot Abhijit Vijay
2002-10-24 21:24       ` Bryan Simmons [this message]
2002-10-25  1:45       ` lawson_whitney
2002-10-26  4:08         ` cr
2002-10-25 18:19 ` Journaling File Systems Bryan Whitehead

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