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Am Sonntag 17 Juni 2007 18:49 schrieb Mark Knecht: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I have a long running Windows machine that I had previously |
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> attempted to make duel boot using the Windows boot loader mostly as an |
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> experiment. It's not my first dual boot. I've got 4 others that use |
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> grub and they all work fine. This machine, however, never did boot |
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> Linux and as it wasn't a high priority I just let it go and ran |
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> Windows on it as needed. However I now need to get it running and want |
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> to switch it over to grub as I doubt I'll be running windows on it |
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> very much in the future so I have a few questions. |
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> The first problem I ran into on this machine was that immediately |
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> after finds my kernel and starts booting I get maybe 1 or 2 lines that |
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> are good but then the screen becomes unreadable. The text characters |
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> are highly garbled and there are columns of dots all over the screen. |
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> The card is an NVidia NV18 GeForce4 MX 400. |
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> Is there possibly a boot line option to get the system to write |
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> these characters cleanly? |
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> The second problem is that after the boot gets started I get a |
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> kernel panic. As background the disk layout of this machine, as viewed |
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> from within Linux booted from an install CD, looks roughly like this: |
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> /dev/hde1 * Blocks=1-3824 ID=7 HPFS/NTFS |
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> /dev/hde2 Blocks=3825-19457 ID=5 Extended |
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> /dev/hde5 Blocks=3825-3837 ID=83 Linux |
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> /dev/hde6 Blocks=3838-4020 ID=83 Linux |
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> /dev/hde7 Blocks=4021-7668 ID=83 Linux |
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> /dev/hde8 Blocks=7669-10218 ID=7 HPFS/NTFS |
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> The last NTSF partition is just data. |
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> The Linux partitions should be boot, swap and the system, in that |
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> order. I wanted to double check that I could load grub and stop using |
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> the Windows boot loader by using something like these commands: |
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If /dev/hde6 is your swap, shouldn't it have the ID 82 (Linux swap / Solaris)? |