[lug] grub.conf missing

The Matt thompsma at colorado.edu
Thu Dec 18 15:15:32 MST 2003


On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 09:24, Stephen Queen wrote:
> When I do a sfdisk  my XP partition looks like
> Disk /dev/hda: 4864 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
> Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
> 
>    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1          0+      3       4-     32098+  de  Dell Utility
> /dev/hda2   *      4    4862    4859   39029917+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> /dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
> 
> So for whatever reason, they seem to put XP ( which shows as NTFS ) on 
> the second partition.

What is Dell thinking doing that?  Man, I guess all those times I hosed
my Dell box during dual boot trials got rid of that.  Mine definitely
doesn't have that.

But, if Mr. Hernandez' box is a Dell, look and see what fdisk shows.

Matt
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