Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Does MSDOS mbr cause kernel panic rootfs sync? Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:57:21 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 62 Message-ID: <1dregj-ng1.ln1@jefferson.foo> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f74a0c9580c5d58c0f987b14536d8ecf"; logging-data="2795129"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18KDAJwT+zh/FwIsa1U2GDEzc2ORZEiZpo=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PP0b5ol3Q0biQJg4tif9mja/8mU= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37776 Sorry for the lateness of this followup! I've had a bit of a problem downloading Usenet articles lately, but that's solved now (I hope). Groovy hepcat vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Wed, 22 Mar 2023 06:18 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it. > Maybe I've been barking up the wrong tree. On my old > dos+xp+quantian > config almost a decade ago, A decade ago? And you're just getting around to asking about it now? > I installed Quantian first Ah, well there's your problem! You would've had better results installing the MS based system(s) first. Whenever I'm installing DOS/Losedows alongside Linux/Minix/*BSD, I always install the former first. The system that comes with grub (my preferred boot loader) is installed last, so that grub can take control of the MBR. > then moved > everything > over to put MSDOS in the zero sector. Now I have MSDOS there. I don't know what you mean by that. It's not very clear, I'm afraid. What did you move? Where did you move it? And just where did you put DOS? I don't understand. Perhaps if you give us an indication of the layout of the partitions on your HDD, it might help us understand what's going on. But if I were to hazard a guess, I'd say you can't boot your Linux system because the DOS/Losedows installations have overwritten the boot loader with their own. Presumably you installed grub (or whichever boot loader Quantian uses by default) to the MBR, and the subsequent installation of DOS/Losedows has overwritten this with the MS boot loader. > Looking at > some of the similar cases online I am wondering if this is the > problem? If so, how fix? Something about redefining where everything > is to knoppix? You haven't actually stated the problem. But if it is as I have surmised above, then the solution is fairly straight forward. Run a rescue Linux system. This can even be the original Quantian disc you installed from in the first place. There should be an option to (re)install the boot loader. If not, there will certainly be an option to run a shell. You can then mount your Quantian root file system, bind mount the /dev filesystem beneath it (so you have access to devices - specifically the HDD), then chroot to Quantian's root file system. Then you can use commands to reinstall the boot loader. If you don't know how to do all of these things, instructions can be easily found by searching on Duck Duck Go or Google. -- ----- Dig the NEW and IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- Ain't I'm a dawg!!