Booting Help!!!!

[pspfreak101]

I recently had a windows vista dreamlinux combo was working good untill I went for the triple boot of Tiny Xp I installed it and I got a "Disk Error press ctrl + delete to restart" so I booted up a copy of my live cd and fix the grub menu and I added the partion "sda5" which is my Tiny Xp to the grub menu but it says "sda5 portion does not exist" and my biggest problem is windows vista does not load!!! it just says "booting vista sda1" but it doesn't load anything so all that works is my dreamlinux on the harddrive can some please help thanks

[yancek]

Login in as root, enter 'fdisk -l' , post it here as well as the content of your menu.lst. Did you set a mount point for your TinyXP? Post /etc/fstab from your dreamlinux.

[pspfreak101]

pspfreak101@dream:~$ sudo fdisk -l

heres fdisk

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       34463   276822088+   7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2           34464       36630    17403120    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3           36631       36822     1542240   82  Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4           36823       38096    10233405   83  Linux
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda5           34464       36630    17403088+   7  HPFS/NTFS

and heres my menu.lst

# See www.gnu.org/software/grub for details
# By default, boot the first entry
#This menu automatically generated by grubmenugen.rb
default 3
# Boot automatically after 10 seconds
timeout 10
gfxmenu (hd0,3)/boot/grub/message.dream

title	Dream linux
root	(hd0,3)
kernel	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.1-kanotix-1 root=/dev/sda4 ro quiet vga=791 splash=silent
initrd	/boot/initrd

title	Dream linux (recovery mode)
root	(hd0,3)
kernel	/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.1-kanotix-1 root=/dev/sda4 ro quiet vga=791 single
initrd	/boot/initrd

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title		Other operating systems:
root

title	Windows Vista
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader	+1


title	Windows Vista Recovory
root	(hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader	+1

title	Windows Xp
root	(hd0,5)
savedefault
chainloader+1

Tiny xp had to have screwed something with windows boot loader but it didn't overwrite vista or anything cause I didn't touch that partion I tried re-installing tiny xp but when its all done and its ready to boot i get a disk error

heres my fstab

/dev/sda3	/	ext3	defaults	0	1
/dev/sda4	none	swap	sw	0	0
proc	/proc	proc	defaults	0	0
/dev/sda1	/mnt/sda1	ntfs	noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000	0	0
/dev/sda2	/mnt/sda2	ntfs	noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000	0	0

[yancek]

I don't know anything about TinyXP, I assume it is some variation of windows as it is an ntfs partition. Your fdisk output shows it (TinyXP) as sda5 but your menu.lst entry shows it as sda6 (hdo,5). If it's on sda5 the menu.lst entry should be (hd0,4). Eliminate the partial entry above windows vista, i.e:

title Other operating systems:
root

It's not doing anything and may be confusing to bootloader, don't really know but it serves no purpose.

Boot your dreamlinux, log in as root, create directory: "mkdir /mnt/tinyxp"
Then mount it: mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sda5 /mnt/tinyxp

Not sure this will work. If not post again with results/errors. You will need to make an entry in fstab also. Your windows bootloaders may be the problem.

Good Luck!

[pspfreak101]

Still doesn't work I installed it on my usb drive it says starting 1.5 grub when I select it but then give me error 25 I tried the super grub disk and select my vista partion but that doesn't even load what happened to my vista

[devils casper]

According to output of fdisk -l command, /dev/sda3 is a SWAP partition but in /etc/fstab file, it is listed as / partition having ext3 filesystem.

Is Dream Linux booting up fine? Are those contents of Dream Linux's fstab and menu.lst files?

[pspfreak101]

linux works fine its when I run vista it hangs at the grub saying booting and then the root but it says unkown file system

[Lostfarmer]

In the menu1st file change under Window selection root to rootnoverify. Make change to all Windows entries.

title Windows Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
savedefault
chainloader +1

[pspfreak101]

nope still doesn't work heres a picture of my gparted

ImageShack - Hosting :: gpartedip4.png

[yancek]

Try these entries in menu.lst

title Win Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot

title Windows Xp
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
savedefault
chainloader +1

Your menu.lst entry for TinyXP shows it in on sda5 which would be (hd0.4) in grub.

Did you delete the entry below from your menu.lst, just above the vista entry?
title Other operating systems:
root