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O.P. How can I veiw the partition tables?
Basically I need to edit boot.ini to boot linux and I need to find out the... address... of the linux partition.

How can I do this within windows as the recovery overwrote grub?

If it isn't possible I always have a Linux boot disc.
07-20-2007 12:52 AM
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RE: How can I veiw the partition tables?
boot.ini for booting linux?

if you need to fix grub, go here: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#Re..._Grub_with_Live_CD
07-20-2007 12:58 AM
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O.P. RE: How can I veiw the partition tables?
If possible i'd rather not use grub.
07-20-2007 01:17 AM
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RE: How can I veiw the partition tables?
you have to have grub or lilo on the bootloader of your linux partition, or as a file on your windows partition at the very least..
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07-20-2007 01:20 AM
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RE: How can I veiw the partition tables?
You need adrian15's Super Grub Disk! It automatically finds your operating systems and can boot into any of them, install GRUB, or set any to boot automatically etc. It's menu based too, very easy to use, great for when Windows decides to eat your GNU partitions.

EDIT: sorry, I misunderstood what you meant. Linux needs to be booted with a decent bootloader, as it isn't chainloaded. You can build a chainloaded kernel, or set up grub or lilo on your Linux partition and have boot.ini boot that instead.

EDIT AGAIN: Why no grub, by the way? It's pretty advanced, any problem you have with it can be fixed very easily..

This post was edited on 07-20-2007 at 03:57 AM by Verte.
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