by Dear Linux/NT gurus,
Can anyone please help me solve my problem on NT/linux installation?
The symptom is that after I installed Linux on my NT desktop, I can
launch Linux but can't enter my old NT system anymore.
My hardware is:
A compaq desktop pc, originally with just one 8G scsi hard drive and
OS of NT4.0. I bought a new IDE hard drive of 20G, then decided to
install Mandrake 8.1 on the computer. I shrinked the NT patition in
the scsi hard drive to 6G (/dev/sda1), and put the boot sector of
Linux at the end of the scsi drive (/dev/sda2). The IDE hard drive
(/dev/hdd) was patitioned to hold Linux directory /home and /usr. This
is my PC in my office, so unfortunately I don't have NT kit with me.
More detailed symptom:
I can correctly enter Lilo. Then if I choose Linux, I can correctly
enter the Linux OS and can mount and view those NT files under Linux.
However, if I choose NT in lilo, it looks fine just at the first
several steps: the system successfully enter the first screen of NT
(shown VGA mode selection etc.), then go to the next two-three screens
displayng info such as
OS Loader 4.01 ......
Microsoft (R) Windows ...
1 System Processor [256 MB memory]
After that, it stucked in a blue background screen showing:
1 System Processor [256 MB memory]
*** STOP: 0x0000007B (0X80D6950, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE
CPUID:GenuineIntel 6.8.3 irql:0 SYSVER 0xf0000565
Dll Base DateStmp - Name Dll Base DateStmp - Name
80100000 37e8005b - ntoskrnl.exe 80001000 36c49a8b - hal.dll
... more lines like the above ...
Address dword dump Build [1381] - Name
f40134d4 8014e448 8014e448 f40134f4 801110e 80d69350 00000000 -
ntoskrnl.exe
... more lines like the above ...
At the end of the screen, it shows:
Restart and set the recovery options in the system control panel or
the /CRASHDEBUG system start option. If this message reappears,
contact your system administrator or technical support group.
I also tried to uninstall lilo, using both "lilo -v -u" under Linux
and "fdisk /mbr" under DOS. The final error message looks the same.
Probably because I made multiple trys to install Linux before
eventually succeed, one of the installation might have done a damage
to the boot patition.
The current lilo looks fine to me (only NT section shown below):
boot=/dev/sda
# Win NT loader section
other=/dev/sda1
label=NT
table=/dev/sda
I already exhausted my knowledge and also close to exhausting the
searching of all previous similar posts on Newsgroup, so I can only
hope that some Gurus in this newsgroup can teach me something
effective. Sorry for my long post, because I don't want to waste your
time without providing enough information.
Best regards!
--Hongyu Zhang