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by fadh_shadower

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I have a bit of a problem installing linux. at first I have a primary dos partition with 2 logical dos partition. I've deleated one of the logical dos partition so that i could accomodate linux native partition in it. unfortunately, after installingI could not reboot. I've tried to delete linux partition using fdisk but fdisk vould not identify the linux partition. I've also tried to reinstall back the linux but there where a security error. Could you guide me on this. oh ya, i'm trying to install linux with ME in one hard disk. Thanks

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by anoop

what u can do is, at the time of linux installtion linux disk has been prepared,put that disk and boot through that disk , linux will load , login as root and go to command prompt and type "lilo" this will restore the lilo and after rebooting u can see windows and linux in the starting, u can select one and prceed

by fadh_shadower

I've already tried that but could not even install linux.

Last night I've been trying some few problem solving (did not do any good). 1st: try to delete the secondry partition in which the linux root and other directory is in. fdisk could not delete the partition because there where logical drive in it. I've tried to delete the logical drive but could not find any logical drive. and also i've tried to delete using non-dos partition. fdisk could not find any. 2nd: I've tried to delete all linux partition using the installation disk of linux. but did not work becouse there where an error regarding some unreadalble file (security). 3rd: I delete the primary dos partition and tried to delete the secondary dos partition. fdisk did delete the primary dos partition but could not delete the secondary dos partition (as explained in 1st) cos there where logical drive in it. and tried again installing linux. still the error comes out.

It did not happened to me before. I've installed once in my computer. it was purfect but not this time round.

oh ya, hard disk space = 10G

by anoop

what u can do is, at the time of linux installtion linux disk has been prepared,put that disk and boot through that disk , linux will load , login as root and go to command prompt and type "lilo" this will restore the lilo and after rebooting u can see windows and linux in the starting, u can select one and prceed

by fadh_shadower

I've already tried that but could not even install linux.

Last night I've been trying some few problem solving (did not do any good). 1st: try to delete the secondry partition in which the linux root and other directory is in. fdisk could not delete the partition because there where logical drive in it. I've tried to delete the logical drive but could not find any logical drive. and also i've tried to delete using non-dos partition. fdisk could not find any. 2nd: I've tried to delete all linux partition using the installation disk of linux. but did not work becouse there where an error regarding some unreadalble file (security). 3rd: I delete the primary dos partition and tried to delete the secondary dos partition. fdisk did delete theprimary dos partition but could not delete the secondary dos partition (as explained in 1st) cos there where logical drive in it. and tried again installing linux. still the error comes out.

It did not happened to me before. I've installed once in my computer. it was purfect but not this time round.

oh ya, hard disk space = 10G

by feizhou

Can you provide a bit more information?

Do you see a LI+ or LI or something when the computer starts again? How large is your hard disk?

by fadh_shadower

I did not see any of them. Last night I've been trying some few problem solving (did not do any good). 1st: try to delete the secondry partition in which the linux root and other directory is in. fdisk could not delete the partition because there where logical drive in it. I've tried to delete the logical drive but could not find any logical drive. and also i've tried to delete using non-dos partition. fdisk could not find any. 2nd: I've tried to delete all linux partition using the installation disk of linux. but did not work becouse there where an error regarding some unreadalble file (security). 3rd: I delete the primary dos partition and tried to delete the secondary dos partition. fdisk did delete the primary dos partition but could not delete the secondary dos partition (as explained in 1st) cos there where logical drive in it. and tried again installing linux. still the error comes out.

It did not happened to me before. I've installed once in my computer. it was purfect butnot this time round.

oh ya, hard disk space = 10G

by mcr1979

if you are installing a "better" dirsro, like RH or Mandrake it will conifg the boot for you. I had this simmilar problem with win2k and RH6.2. Windows wants its own boot manager to handel the MBR. By using FDISK, you run into the problem with corrupting the Boot records.

Does windows still boot? if not use the ME repair disk and get it going again.

once windows is running, defrag the disk.

then try to reinstall linux. it sounds like you freaked out the boot and disk partitions. Linux likes to take everything over. I suggest downloading/ordering mandrake Linux 8.1 It has a good install that lets you setup the boot sequence.

by shanghai sam

Question is:
1) Do you want to remove linux, or
2) Do you want to try to boot linux once more?

1) To remove linux type: "fdisk /mbr" in dos.
2) There are several ways to boot a linux partition, a)Use "Loadlin", that is a Dos-based utilily, b)Boot your freshly made "boot-diskette",
the diskette can be corrupt or just not work,
c)If you are pretty sure you?ve made a working linux-partition than you can start your setup-CD again, type: "rescue" after the "boot" -prompt that you will see after a couple of seconds after starting the program.
Scip this, or it will become to complicated!
Sorry for that, just start the setup-CD program,
do not type "rescue" just let it start on and after that you will have to look for a possibilily to make a boot-disk, I can give no directions because you did?nt specify a "brand".
It will not be of any use after all, because all that you will get is a new "boot" -disk!, so the best I can do is to give an advice: Use my methode 1) to get rid of problems with the MBR, then use fdisk to remove all but you primary partition but like you said, there are no second logical partitions to remove!
Don?t worry, thats normal as no linux part. can be showed in a Dos environment, and because log2 is part of Prim-ext, wich is shell for log1 & log2 you can?t get rid of it!
It?s not enough but its all I can come up with for you right now. greetings from Gabriel

by jaqui

to completely remove the extended dos partition and go back to just windows, you will need to use a 3rd party partitioning tool, powerquest's partition magic works great.
it will also allow you to set up the partitions on the hard disk to be able to have the linux patritions ( it will make the linux ext2 or ext3 partition for you if you want)

if going for dual boot, install windows first.
then install linux after windows is setup completely.

use lilo or grub as bootloader when installing linux as they will allow the dual boot.

dos fdisk is actually useless for working with a dual boot setup on the hd, as microsoft doesn't want you to use anything but microsoft. ( I had to battle with partitons fixing an old 486 just recently, with manufacturers partition, windows partiton and linux partiotn on the hd. literally had to put the disk into my own p3 to get everything fixed as the 486 was useless with my software utilities. ~g~)

by jaqui

with partion space on the hard drive already, boot into linux install program and do a fresh install, formatting the linux partion. that will get rid of security error from linux. ( sorry was tired before and didn't see that part of the question)

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