Re: Reinstalling windows on a dual boot system (V P)

[Saurabh Siddharth]

Thanks guys..
I think i will try the option of using disk 1 of fedora installation this weekend...seems
easiest to 
me. :)
sid
PS: i am using thunderbird mail client..and have subscribed to fedora-list digest...so i
get mails 
in bundled form..i cannot reply to a particular mail..so i wrote a new mail and copied the
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>  
>  Subject:
>  Re: Reinstalling windows on a dual boot system
>  From:
>  V P <list307(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  Date:
>  Wed, 1 Jun 2005 18:14:08 +0530
>  To:
>  For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  
>  To:
>  For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  
>  
>  On 6/1/05, sid <sid(a)winoble.com&gt; wrote:
>  
> >I have Windows Xp prof and Fedora 3 installed on my laptop. I need to reinstall my
> windows xp cos
> >its showing its native behaviour..like system hang.. Now i read that if I reinstall
> windows..it will
> >overwrite my current boot loader(GRUB)..and then i will not be able to boot linux. Is
> there a way to
> >do it without losing my linux installation??
>  
>  
>  ReInstalling windows will no doubt overwrite your grub, but it will
>  not destroy your FC installation. There are two ways out of this
>  problem.
>  
>  1. Once the installation of WinXP is complete, boot with Disk 1 of FC
>  into the rescue shell, chroot to the installation and run
>  
>       $ grub-install /dev/hdX
>  
>  replace X as applicable.
>  
>  
>  2. Before installing WinXP boot into your FC installation and as root
>  run the command
>  
>       $ dd if=/dev/hdXX of=bootsect.bin bs=512 count-1
>  
>  /dev/hdXX would be your /boot partition (or / if you don't have a
>  separate boot). This will generate a file (bootsect.bin) of size
>  512KB. Save the file to a floppy. Once the installation of WinXP is
>  complete, copy the file to c:\ and edit c:\boot.ini as follows.
>  
>  [boot loader]
>  timeout=10
>  default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
>  [operating systems]
>  multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
> Professional"
>  c:\bootsect.lin="Fedora Core"
>  
>  
>  Hope this helps.
>  
>  VJP
>  
>  
>

Newbie- Fedora Core 3 and Emachines 5310 first boot issue

[Al Davis]

I'm having issues getting Fedora core 3 to boot on my emachines 5310

Machine Spec

CPU: Mobile AMD Athlon™ XP-M 2400+ Processor with QuantiSpeed™ architecture
Memory: 512 MB DDR (PC 2100)
Hard Drive: 40 GB HDD 2
Optical Drives: DVD/CD-RW Combo (CD-read 24x; CD-write 24x; CD-rewrite 10x;
DVD-read 8x)
Video: ATI® RADEON™ IGP 320M
64 MB (shared) Video Memory
Sound: PC2001 Compliant AC '97 Audio
Built-in Stereo Speakers
Modem: 56K ITU V.92 Fax/Modem
Network: Integrated 802.11g Wireless LAN, 10/100Mbps built-in Ethernet
Pointing Device: Touchpad with vertical Scroll Zone
Battery: 8-cell Lithium-ion (Li-ion)

I go through the install process and when it tries to boot it hangs at

Initializing hardware...storage network audio.

I should also probably mention that I am attempting to dual boot this
machine with Win XP.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Al 

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Newbie- Fedora Core 3 and Emachines 5310 first boot issue

[Tony Nelson]

At 8:48 PM -0400 6/1/05, Al Davis wrote:
> I'm having issues getting Fedora core 3 to boot on my emachines
> 5310
>
> Machine Spec
>
> CPU: Mobile AMD Athlonô XP-M 2400+ Processor with QuantiSpeedô architecture
> Memory: 512 MB DDR (PC 2100)
> Hard Drive: 40 GB HDD 2
> Optical Drives: DVD/CD-RW Combo (CD-read 24x; CD-write 24x; CD-rewrite 10x;
> DVD-read 8x)
> Video: ATIÆ RADEONô IGP 320M
> 64 MB (shared) Video Memory
> Sound: PC2001 Compliant AC '97 Audio
> Built-in Stereo Speakers
> Modem: 56K ITU V.92 Fax/Modem
> Network: Integrated 802.11g Wireless LAN, 10/100Mbps built-in Ethernet
> Pointing Device: Touchpad with vertical Scroll Zone
> Battery: 8-cell Lithium-ion (Li-ion)
>
> I go through the install process and when it tries to boot it hangs at
>
> Initializing hardware...storage network audio. 
Umm, next is "done", so I suppse the problem is with audio.


> I should also probably mention that I am attempting to dual boot this
> machine with Win XP. 
That shouldn't be the problem yet.


> Any help would be appreciated. 
Try booting without the "quiet" option.  Press the "any" key as grub
starts, press "a" to edit the options, cursor over to "quiet" and
backspace
to delete it, press RETURN to boot.

Unfortunately, it will all go by too fast to read.  You could try booting
from a rescue CD (or from the installer CD?), in Rescue mode, then cd to
the directory they tell you is root, and then:

    less /var/log/dmesg

to look for problems, possibly sound-related, that may lead to your hang.

But what do I know?  I'm new at this too.
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Reinstalling windows on a dual boot system (V P)

[Vivek J. Patankar]

On 6/2/05, sid <sid(a)winoble.com&gt; wrote:
>  Thanks guys..
>  I think i will try the option of using disk 1 of fedora installation this weekend...seems
> easiest to
>  me. :)
>  sid
>  PS: i am using thunderbird mail client..and have subscribed to fedora-list digest...so i
> get mails
>  in bundled form..i cannot reply to a particular mail..so i wrote a new mail and copied
> the topic and
>  contents from the mail i wanted to reply to..i hope this mail goes into the same
> thread..(should do
>  unless information is read from mail header and not just topic..) 
Gmail threads on the basis of topic and not header. For others it
might have been different.

>  > run the command
>  >
>  >      $ dd if=/dev/hdXX of=bootsect.bin bs=512 count-1 
TYPO : $ dd if=/dev/hdXX of=bootsect.bin bs=512 count=1


>  > [boot loader]
>  > timeout=10
>  > default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
>  > [operating systems]
>  > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
> Professional"
>  > c:\bootsect.lin="Fedora Core" 
TYPO: c:\bootsect.bin="Fedora Core"
Please note the contents of your boot.ini will not be the same as
above (but obvious). You just need to append the entry for Fedora at
the end.


VJP

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