[Grml] Re: save important data with grml
Mark
27e3kk302 at sneakemail.com
Sun Aug 20 00:12:44 CEST 2006
> Hi!
> I wanted to Install Windows on a computer where debian was already
> installed.
> after istalling (no error messages), I didn't see any boot manager, just
> "NTLDR is missing"*
> I installed windows again. I saw my partitions, but then the same
> error happened again. I tried to install debian. I didn't see my
> partitions(!)
This question asks nothing specific about grml (or even Debian) so try
asking
http://www.linuxquestions.org
http://www.linux-tips.net
or similar. Grml is for sysadmins. But here is my advice.
Windows has a well known bug/problem/feature -- it does not like to be
installed in second place. You have a bootloader problem and maybe a
corrupted partition table. You can backup a partition table with
dd if=/dev/mydisk of=./mybackuptable.dd bs=512 count=1
and restore it with
dd if=./mybackuptable.dd of=/dev/mydisk bs=512 count=1
where the file mybackuptable.dd goes someplace permanent. But know what
you're doing.
See dual-boot comments at
http://os.newsforge.com/os/06/02/22/2221258.shtml for another clean
dual-boot method. The USB solution leaves Windows hard drives totally
unmodified and still gives a nice boot menu.
Or, you can install Windows to a QEMU image instead. Then it does not
compete with Linux over the bootloader. This solution is also very
clean.
On a partitioned IDE drive you need to install Windows first. Backup
the Windows bootloader for safety. (Use a Linux live CD with dd
command.) Fallback to default Windows if something goes wrong.
Then install Linux to another partition and boot. Add a stanza to
lilo.conf to add the Windows boot partition to your boot menu. Execute
lilo -v to make the new stanza take effect.
M
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