Displacer on 9/1/2009 at 23:00
Most likely menu.lst has a problem.
Grab a copy of SuperGrubDisk, burn it and follow the instructions (
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/SuperGrubDiskProblems) here under this heading:
"SGD seems to work ok. I see the GRUB menu but when booting my Linux I see: Error 17 : Cannot mount selected partition."
dvrabel on 10/1/2009 at 11:19
You can edit grub lines from within grub itself so there's no need to download a bootable CD.
EZ-52 on 12/1/2009 at 19:54
How do you do that?
dvrabel on 13/1/2009 at 10:07
I can't quite remember.
Select the boot option you wish to edit and press 'e'. Then select the particular line you wish to change and press 'e' again. Edit the line (e.g., changing which partition it uses), press enter and then 'b' to boot.
Note that this won't change the configuration file but it is useful to trying out options easily. When you've found the options that work you'll need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.
EZ-52 on 18/1/2009 at 23:37
I can't push any buttons other than ctrl+alt+del to shut down the computer, so I'm guessing I'll need to get a copy of SuperGrubDisk. Failing that I can just repair the Windows installation.
EZ-52 on 13/2/2009 at 20:03
Okay, using supergrubdisk I've managed to restore Windows, but it was having a hard time doing anything with the Linux Drive. Kept getting Error 18. Something to do with the cylinders being outwith the range of the BIOS? No idea.
Linux appers to have merged my D and E drives together to make one single drive and done the following:
1GB Partion "LINUX"
5GB Partion "LINUX"
978mb Partion "LINUX-SWAP"
29GB Partion "FAT32"
Could the two seperate Linux drives be the root of my problems?
malau on 18/2/2009 at 03:49
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Windows 98 Second Edition to be specific.
Why ? Why not XP ??
What makes you say ME is so bad ?? Especially compared to 98 ?
98 is alot slower and has less features. I think maybe people are looking back with rose tinted glasses at 98.
Displacer on 18/2/2009 at 12:40
Quote Posted by EZ-52
Okay, using supergrubdisk I've managed to restore Windows, but it was having a hard time doing anything with the Linux Drive. Kept getting Error 18. Something to do with the cylinders being outwith the range of the BIOS? No idea.
Linux appers to have merged my D and E drives together to make one single drive and done the following:
1GB Partion "LINUX"
5GB Partion "LINUX"
978mb Partion "LINUX-SWAP"
29GB Partion "FAT32"
Could the two seperate Linux drives be the root of my problems?
The smaller of the partitions could be for boot, it's a standard way to install to put boot on its own partition, 1 gig is a bit large though so it may be something else.
As for merging your drives, it most likely set them up as a RAID.
As for the error 18, I assume you have an older computer and most likely the drive is larger than the bios can handle. What happens is the linux kernel is on a block beyond what the bios can read so it can't access the kernel.
Read (
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB#Error_18) this for some help on the problem
EvaUnit02 on 23/2/2009 at 17:09
Quote Posted by malau
Why ? Why not XP ??
What makes you say ME is so bad ?? Especially compared to 98 ?
98 is alot slower and has less features. I think maybe people are looking back with rose tinted glasses at 98.
ME only booted faster because they removed real mode DOS, braking support for hundreds of DOS games. You could supposedly patch back in, but I was never successful.
XP is too much for some older computers, also some hardware never had XP or W2000 drivers.
