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Re: Still no success with boot to NT on hda2
From: |
David Balazic |
Subject: |
Re: Still no success with boot to NT on hda2 |
Date: |
Tue, 13 May 2003 17:35:42 +0200 |
Uwe Dippel wrote:
>
> --- David Balazic <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > Had - of course - tried all of this.
> > > Hide the first partition; check
> >
> > What happened ? Did it help ?
>
> Sorry, my ambiguity here. 'check' meant 'tick, yes, done'
Just in case , what exact command did you use when hiding hda1 ?
What happened ? Did windows boot ? Not ? Was any error printed ? What ?
> > Delete windows :-)
>
> What funny. Would rather have done it yesteryear. But this is the
> machine @work and I need it @times.
>
> I am hoping to improve grub, which is already great !
>
> Actually, it is even worse: I brought a disk from home and put it in as
> hdc1 (hd1,0) that contains simply the content of that C:. Nothing else.
> And it had been 'ghosted' to that pseudo-C: with immediate success. And
> boots perfectly with grub ('map'). So I am pretty sure that this
> partition (hda2) doesn't lack anything, because it is just another cast
> of that 'ghost' that I also threw to hdc1 without any problem. So if it
> is possible to boot easily to that 'ghosted' hdc1; the content of hda2
> can be mounted; with root (hd0,1) it shows a FAT16 filesystem (I didn't
> mention this earlier, I think); --- so why the hell wouldn't it want to
> boot ??
I don't think that anything is missing from your hda2.
It is just that MS code sometimes decides that it just won't work :-)
--
David Balazic
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