Geo Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 Yesterday I got a new hard drive, and installed redhat. After it was done and settled, I went back into Win2k to use the left over space to create some more partitions. After a restart it seemed to have shat itself, "grub" just comes to a command line thingy... So I reinstalled redhat and I was on my way again (new partitions still working). Im guessing the problem was because of the fragmentation or something... that it lost some of the linux data ? Can someone shed some light on this? Also want to know if I change those extra partitions to FAT32 (redhat dont like NTFS), without the same problem happening again. thanks :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 25, 2004 MVC Share Posted January 25, 2004 more than likely - windows just messed up the mbr of the disk you had installed linux on (and what grub was using to boot your linux from) Windows has a NASTY habit of taking over anything it touches. You put a floppy in a windows machine, it makes changes. You formated/created a parition on that drive with windows - it would change the mbr to what it wants to see, etc.. I would of recommended that you FORMAT native as NTFS - doing convert to NTFS would be a LAST choice. If at all possible NTFS drives should be created that way when formated, not converted from FAT. Redhat likes NTFS just fine for reading - its writing where the problem comes in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[ucw]prophet Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 NTFS support in Linux: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ If you're using Red Hat/Fedora, there's a rpm that you'll need to install and that'll be it. http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/downloads.html Make sure you read the instructions on how to get the machine to automount on boot. Here's the instructions: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/instructions.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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