Messages in this thread | | | From | Darren Williams <> | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 10:19:36 +1000 | Subject | Re: Linux-2.6.8 Hates DOS partitions |
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Hi Denis
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > I just had to reinstall the "Fedora Linux 2" release from scratch the > > second time. What it does is, even though I told it to leave my > > SCSI disks alone, and even though I bought a new ATA Disk just for > > it, and even though I carefully told the installation program to > > use ONLY /dev/hda... Guess what? It installed a piece of GRUB > > on my first SCSI, /dev/sda, where the LILO boot-loader for DOS > > and linux-2.4.26 exists! It looks like it put it in a partition > > table! > > > > So, every time I install a new Linux version, GRUB writes something > > else there. Eventually it probably gets big enough to make the DOS D: > > partition go away, and soon DOS drive C: becomes unbootable. I can't > > find any other reason. > > If you want to be sure that DOS boots, you may boot Linux by booting > into DOS first and then use loadlin/linld. I do it all the time. > > > This is the second time I've had to reinstall everything from > > scratch in the past two weeks and I can tell you that there is > > nothing "free" about free software. I think you are misinterpreting "free", for example: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html#AboutFreeSoftware
is a good start, it has nothing to do with $$$$$ :)
> > Bullshit. Commercial software can mess things up too. > > Two weeks ago I personally witnessed how simple chkdsk > (standard one from NT install CD, not a fancy utility) > mangled NT4 domain controller's mirrored boot partition > to the point of "inaccessible boot device" BSOD. > > It was not fun at all. Luckily I had a complete backup. > -- > vda > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" 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.tux.org/lkml/ -------------------------------------------------- Darren Williams <dsw AT gelato.unsw.edu.au> Gelato@UNSW <www.gelato.unsw.edu.au> -------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" 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.tux.org/lkml/
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