Re: XP - Me - RedHat 9 disaster.

From: Walter Mautner (new.10.eatallspam_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 10/14/03 

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:10:40 +0200

r i c h a r d s m a g i c wrote:

> Hey All! Ill try and keep this short...?
>
...
> Went to install RH9 - partitioned the disc and had its own space (15Gb)
> to run just the Desktop Setup for RH9 and it froze at the setting up of
> the screen, even tho it detected the NEC monitor and card easily
> before?
>
Sh*t happens. Would be nice to know which graphic card?
Next time you might want to try "linux nofb" (no frame buffer). You can
apply boot parameters by pressing "esc" when the graphic boot menu
appears.

> Had to drop out of the install. Then Gimp wouldnt let me dual boot to
> windows at all and it wouldnt finish linux boot cos it didnt finish the
> install.
>
"Gimp" is a graphics editor almost comparable to photoshop. Guess you
mean lilo or grub (bootloaders)?

> cant get into xp cos of gimp, gimp cant load linux cos it didnt finish
> the install?
>
Vicious circle, but you can break out easily by inserting the 1st install
CD, again press "esc" or "F1" or whatever it tells you for "more
options". Then use "rescue" and either restore windows or linux
bootloader.

> format and repeat - xp WONT install over itself now, and neither with
> linux and everytime winxp tries to reboot as part of the install, gimp
> stops it?!
>
Guess because you have formatted your XP as NTFS, so linux chose to make
it's own partition the "active" one (cause it couldn't write the
bootloader elsewhere). You will need fdisk (rescue mode, or the dos
fdisk) to make the 1st XP partition bootable "active" again. Then you
can fdisk/mbr to remove your "gimp" or grub. 

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