From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: Ntfs compability Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:23:43 -0500 Message-ID: <20060314142342.GA1164@lnx2.kvinet.com> References: <1142332639.44169cdfe9602@webmail2.hut.fi> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1142332639.44169cdfe9602@webmail2.hut.fi> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ttpiirai@cc.hut.fi Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 03-14, Tommi Tapani Piirainen wrote: > Hi, > > I have slackware 10.1. I rewrote my ntfs partition with cfdisk and now I am > unable to boot the partition (with windows xp). Can the problem be that i wrote > the table with cfdisk or could it be some thing else. In additional there is two > different ntfs partition is cfdisk both named same way. I used the first one > can't remember the number (or was it 86, don't remember). > > The reason for doing this was to include slackware to same disk. First I deleted > ntfs partition and made it smaller. Motivation for doing this was mbr chrash due > use of "System Mechanic 6" or at least I think so. I intalled lilo to mbr and it > fixed the mbr problem. Booting problems can also have some thing to do with > System Mechanic 6 altering my dll-files or some thing else. > > The ntfs partition is first partition in the disk and I use lilo-bootloader. Can > I fix the partition with ntfstools to be bootable? > > -- > Tommi Greetings: In other words it looks like you want XP to boot, but then how would you run Slack; with a floppy?? Anyway could you not re-edit /etc/lilo.conf putting the hda1 notations ahead of the Linux notations; running lilo to rewrite the MBR? How about booting with an XP rescue floppy or CD and running the old standby; fdisk /mbr?? Live dangerously, eh? HTH. -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs