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How can I veiw the partition tables? by Baggins on 07-20-2007 at 12:52 AM
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.
RE: How can I veiw the partition tables? by Supersonicdarky on 07-20-2007 at 12:58 AM
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
RE: How can I veiw the partition tables? by Baggins on 07-20-2007 at 01:17 AM
If possible i'd rather not use grub.
RE: How can I veiw the partition tables? by ShawnZ on 07-20-2007 at 01:20 AM
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..
RE: How can I veiw the partition tables? by Verte on 07-20-2007 at 03:49 AM
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..