Hi,
Thanks for any help and advice.
I had dual boot (Windows Vista and Opensuse 11.1). Service Pack 2 came along and wrecked my machine and required repair installation - and wiped Grub. Also, i had to mark Windows partition of hard drive as "active" as this was the only way to get SP2 installed.
I have 2 problems:
1) My linux partition reports "no volume associated with this partition"
2) Grub and any linux bootloader entries were removed.
Windows Diskpart sees my partitions like this:
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 504 GB 1024 KB
Partition 0 Extended 428 GB 504 GB
Partition 2 Logical 2055 MB 504 GB
Partition 3 Logical 20 GB 506 GB
Partition 4 Logical 406 GB 526 GB
Grub, sees my partitions like this:
Partition num File System Type
------------- ---------------- -------
Partition 0 NTFS 0x7
Partition 4 Unknown 0x82
Partition 5 ext2fs 0x83
Partition 6 ext2fs 0x83
I used EasyBCD and aded 2 entries:
Entry #1
Name: Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic (recovered)
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry #2
Name: NeoSmart Linux Part 3
BCD ID: {20135dd3-f6ea-11de-947e-00248c0ddc44}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_grub.mbr
When i try to root(hd0,0) on Grub menu - or even just try and boot straight in to the "NeoSmart Linux Part 3" option - i always get:
Unable to mount disk or Insert System media and press any key.
Completely comfused and lost as to how :
to get my dual boot system back.
get linux partition working.
to know which partition to use in EasyBCD.
Microsoft SP2 wrecked my machine.
Regards, snapple
Thanks for any help and advice.
I had dual boot (Windows Vista and Opensuse 11.1). Service Pack 2 came along and wrecked my machine and required repair installation - and wiped Grub. Also, i had to mark Windows partition of hard drive as "active" as this was the only way to get SP2 installed.
I have 2 problems:
1) My linux partition reports "no volume associated with this partition"
2) Grub and any linux bootloader entries were removed.
Windows Diskpart sees my partitions like this:
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 504 GB 1024 KB
Partition 0 Extended 428 GB 504 GB
Partition 2 Logical 2055 MB 504 GB
Partition 3 Logical 20 GB 506 GB
Partition 4 Logical 406 GB 526 GB
Grub, sees my partitions like this:
Partition num File System Type
------------- ---------------- -------
Partition 0 NTFS 0x7
Partition 4 Unknown 0x82
Partition 5 ext2fs 0x83
Partition 6 ext2fs 0x83
I used EasyBCD and aded 2 entries:
Entry #1
Name: Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic (recovered)
BCD ID: {current}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \Windows\system32\winload.exe
Windows Directory: \Windows
Entry #2
Name: NeoSmart Linux Part 3
BCD ID: {20135dd3-f6ea-11de-947e-00248c0ddc44}
Drive: C:\
Bootloader Path: \NST\nst_grub.mbr
When i try to root(hd0,0) on Grub menu - or even just try and boot straight in to the "NeoSmart Linux Part 3" option - i always get:
Unable to mount disk or Insert System media and press any key.
Completely comfused and lost as to how :
to get my dual boot system back.
get linux partition working.
to know which partition to use in EasyBCD.
Microsoft SP2 wrecked my machine.
Regards, snapple