[ltp] A31p BIOS upgrade and win2k

[Norman Levin]

hda1 should not be hidden.  It should be marked bootable
for DOS/windows.  Linux doesn't care about that.

I'm surprised to see hda2, another primary partition.  This will normally
be unknown to C:  Windows likes other partitions to be logical partitions.

Your first problem is getting windows going.  Try to reset hda1.
Do not change id.  
norm
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Grindrod" <dkgrindrod@yahoo.com>
To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 3:12 PM
Subject: Re: [ltp] A31p BIOS upgrade and win2k


| I have tried all the BIOS images I could find on the IBM website. They 
| are all later than the  version originally installed and nothing seems 
| to make it boot. The only thing to add is that trying to fix the problem 
| I have the following output from fdisk /dev/hda. Seems that the 
| partitions are hidden now. They were not originally. Anyway to make them 
| unhidden from Linux? Would changing the partition system  id within 
| fdisk work without loosing data?
|  
| Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 7752 cylinders
| Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
| 
|    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
| /dev/hda1             1       971   7340728+  1b  Hidden Win95 FAT32
| /dev/hda2           972      1181   1587600   1c  Hidden Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
| /dev/hda3   *      1182      1249    514080   83  Linux
| /dev/hda4          1250      7752  49162680    5  Extended
| /dev/hda5          1250      1943   5246608+  83  Linux
| /dev/hda6          1944      2775   6289888+  83  Linux
| /dev/hda7          2776      4162  10485688+  83  Linux
| /dev/hda8          4163      4301   1050808+  82  Linux swap
| /dev/hda9          4302      7752  26089528+   7  HPFS/NTFS
| 
| 
| I could just as easy reinstall Windows than remove Linux. I feel that it 
| should not be necessary to remove operating systems to get support. IBM 
| is supposed to support Linux and they do with hardware just not with 
| software.
| 
| David
| 
| Joe Clark wrote:
| 
| >----- Original Message -----
| >From: "David Grindrod" <dkgrindrod@yahoo.com>
| >To: <linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com>
| >Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 4:01 PM
| >Subject: [ltp] A31p BIOS upgrade and win2k
| >
| >
| >>Windows would not boot no matter what I did and comes back
| >>with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE in the  blue screen of death. I have
| >>performed all the obvious things (booting from repair console and
| >>installing mbr etc.) to fix things but always get the same error. Linux
| >>runs fine  and luckily I can boot into this and try and fix the problem.
| >>
| >
| >I would recommend that
| > 1)  you restore you original BIOS, if you haven't already.
| >2) Assuming that you are able to boot Win2k after restoring the original
| >BIOS, backup and remove Linux from your system
| >3) Upgrade your BIOS onto your single OS system and get any help you need
| >from IBM
| >4) Restore Linux and live happily ever after or at least until the next
| >crisis.
| >
| >JC
| >
| >
| >
| >
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| 
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