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 Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:50 am |
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I got a "targa now nt9231" from Lidl, local supermarket, not dear,
but as usual Windows is a pain, so I decided to put Slackware on it.
(CPU, Intel atom). Booted to a SLack USB disk, 2 sectors on HD the
usual backup minimal one, and the main Windows one, which, as I
always do, deleted, and made another smaller one(NTFS) , and a further one
for slack(Linux). Wrote them. Now, I went away to do something else,
and returned to find the machine plugged out, now it boots to
`invalid HD table' or similiar message, wont either do an emergency
reinstall from the backup, or open the BIOS screen. (This is a
netbook thingie, no keyboard or screen, external screen plug, usb for
mouse and keyboard). Any ideas?. Presently looking for something to
press to reset to system defaults.
PS, when fdisking, what number corrosponds in partition type to Apple
OS X?.
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| Henrik Carlqvist... |
| Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:01 pm |
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greymausg at (no spam) mail.com wrote:
Quote: Booted to a SLack USB disk,
Can you do that again?
Quote: 2 sectors on HD the usual backup minimal one, and the main Windows one,
I suppose you mean two different partitions?
Quote: which, as I always do, deleted, and made another smaller one(NTFS), and
a further one for slack(Linux). Wrote them.
Did you in some way restore the windows contents to the new NTFS
partition? Did you make that partition active (bootable) in fdisk?
Quote: Now, I went away to do something else, and returned to find the machine
plugged out,
Was it plugged out during the Slackware installation? If so my guess is
that the installation didn't get far enough to install lilo.
Quote: now it boots to `invalid HD table' or similiar message,
Without lilo in the MBR and without a working windows partition to boot to
there probably isn't anything to boot.
Quote: wont either do an emergency reinstall from the backup, or open the BIOS
screen. (This is a netbook thingie, no keyboard or screen, external
screen plug, usb for mouse and keyboard). Any ideas?. Presently looking
for something to press to reset to system defaults.
I don't know what kind of restore features that machines have, but I think
that you should redo the Slackware installation and make it right this
time, without any power interrupt.
Quote: PS, when fdisking, what number corrosponds in partition type to Apple OS
X?.
According to http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
a8 and ab are Mac OS X partitions.
regards Henrik
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| javeree... |
| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:39 am |
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Quote: Without lilo in the MBR and without a working windows partition to boot to
there probably isn't anything to boot.
wont either do an emergency reinstall from the backup, or open the BIOS
screen. (This is a netbook thingie, no keyboard or screen, external
screen plug, usb for mouse and keyboard). Any ideas?. Presently looking
for something to press to reset to system defaults.
I am not sure if this is still possible in your case, but before I
installed gentoo linux, I checked the BIOS. There I could set it per
default to
1. boot to USB
2. show the post messages.
In my case, the post message tells to press DEL to get into BIOS
settings.
If you have a USB stick inserted while entering the BIOS, you can
select USB disk as first boot disk (repeat: you see the option only
when you have the usb stick inserted while powering up!).
Furthermore, I had grub installed on a USB stick, and was able to
start the recovery partition using
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
makeactive
map (hd0,hd1)
mpa (hd1,hd0)
chainloader +1
The recovery program can then restore MBR
probably a similar thing is possible with LILO |
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