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Re: Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv)

From	Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux, uk.comp.os.linux, uk.tech.digital-tv
Subject	Re: Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv)
Date	2016-01-20 10:52 +0000
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On 20/01/16 10:35, Java Jive wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:13:18 +0000, Adrian Caspersz
> <email@here.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if W2k is perhaps using a different partition type numerical id
>> for NTFS?
>
> No, but, unlike W7, it ignores the hidden bit flag in the numerical
> id, and so provides it as a potential drive letter whether it's hidden
> or not.
>
>> Backup and then use a live CD
>>
>> http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-repair-restore-reinstall-grub-2-with-a-ubuntu-live-cd
>>
>> I'd find another PC to run linux on, and leave this one for Window 7 and
>> w2k to fight out to death. It's totally non-compliant, I bet Microsoft
>> never dreamt of such a strange environment ...
>
> Well, yes, it's looking like it's coming down to that now, but really
> it should be possible to repair/reinstall grub from the installation
> itself, but, despite a number of wail-mails out there no-one seems
> actually to understand how and why in a small number of cases this
> particular error message is being generated.  I suppose the
> grub-install source files would tell us something ...
>

Does /dev/root even exist?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776481

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Adrian C

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Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv) Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2016-01-19 21:48 +0000
  Re: Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv) Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-19 23:22 +0000
    Re: Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv) Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2016-01-20 00:38 +0000
      Re: Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv) Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> - 2016-01-20 09:45 +0000
        Re: Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv) Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2016-01-20 12:04 +0000
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            Re: Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv) Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2016-01-20 13:33 +0000
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  Re: Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv) Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-01-20 01:13 +0000
    Re: Dual-Booting Linux/Windows 7/Windows 2000 - two gotchas (OT for uk.tech.digital-tv) Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> - 2016-01-20 10:35 +0000
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