FW: [wplug] Grub - Windows Drive arrangements.....

[Coutch, Robert]

My last suggestion would be to use the Disk Management MMC plug-in
to reassign drive letters in Windows.

You may be able to remove the drive letter assignment for the EXT partiton
but I'm not sure about that.
If nothing else, reassign the letters to make them fit you old layout and
use some higher letter for the
ext partition (e.g. Z:).


Hope this helps,

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 3:56 PM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: Re: [wplug] Grub - Windows Drive arrangements.....


The IDE drive used for linux is formatted as EXT3.  But, Windows managed 
to recognize it enough to assign it a drive letter (D:), and moved all 
the other drives down one letter assignment.

Coutch, Robert wrote:

>Windows doesn't normally recognize any partitions not marked as DOS or
>Windows types or formatted with
>FAT/NTFS.
>
>I'm guessing you did NOT format your Linux partition as FAT/VFAT/NTFS so
>check the partition type
>with fdisk, cfdisk or parted and make sure it's a Linux type (0x83).
>
>
>Good Luck,
>
>Bob
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
>Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 12:32 AM
>To: coutchre at tvratings.com
>Subject: [wplug] Grub - Windows Drive arrangements.....
>
>
>My new installation of RH 8.0 w/ Grub as the bootloader caused some 
>strange mapping of my drives in windows.  RH is on a 16 gig IDE Drive 
>and Winblows is on an old 4 gig SCSI HD. The CD Rom drives are located 
>at SCSI ID's of 0,2,0 and 0,4,0 in the parlance of Linux SCSI addressing.
>
>Below is the 'DOS' section of my grub.conf file.  The default install of 
>grub did not include the two lines that start with 'map' to change the 
>virtual mapping of the two hard drives so that Windows sees the SCSI 
>Hard drive as the first hard drive.
>
>title DOS
>        rootnoverify (hd1,0)
>        chainloader +1
>        map (hd0) (hd1)
>        map (hd1) (hd0)
>
>Now to the problem:  In Windows, the only recognized hard drive was the 
>Windows SCSI drive as C: and it's second Partition as D:.  The CDROMs 
>were E: and F:.  In the past using LILO with older distro's, LILO's 
>mapping did not disurb the layout of Windows drive naming scheme. 
> Previously, with LILO in Windows, the Linux Hard drive was no where to 
>be found(as is should be).
>
>With the new Grub install.  What I assume to be the Linux hard drive now 
>shows up as D: although it is not accessable.  The second partition of 
>the Windows SCSI gets shuffled down to E: and the CDROM drives are now 
>F: and G:.  This messes up any shared folders I had and numerous 
>configuration files.
>
>I think the difference is that the bootloader is installed on the Linux 
>drive MBR instead of the SCSI MBR as I believe it was in the past.  
>
>Does this sound like the cause?  
>
>I just have to figure out how to get grub to install it's bootloader on 
>the SCSI MBR.  
>
>Will have to dig for The Fine Manual.
>
>Bill
>
> 
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