General :: GRUB Will Not Recognize OS/2 HPFS
Jul 8, 2011
I have a nice spare K6 machine with a 66G drive and OS/2 Warp 4 installed on the primary partition, which is all of 2G, formatted in HPFS. Like DOS, OS/2 can only be on the primary partition. I have set up and formatted 3 additional partitions as ext2 or ext3 using qParted. GRUB is a great bootloader, but does not seem to recognize the primary partition at all, making multiboot difficult. Is there a way of getting GRUB to recognize the HPFS?
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Feb 14, 2011
I'm unable to format a new drive. I've tried commands, which complete without error, yet the drive is still listed as NTFS.
===========Ive tried the following
[root@server ~]# mke2fs -j -m1 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
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Jul 19, 2010
I have a mini tower that started life using only Windows XP, I converted it to dual boot Umbuntu 10.04 and Windows XP. So far, so good, since I was using a ps2 mouse and keyboard. My problem started when I converted to wireless keyboard and mouse.....the bios recognizes the keyboard, both operating systems recognize the keyboard and mouse....BUT!!, the grub loader recognizes neither. Now, I can get around this problem by 1. letting Umbuntu load by default or unplugging the USB connection device for the keyboard and mouse and replugging my old ps2 keyboard long enough to boot to the system that I want to use.
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Oct 20, 2010
Recently installed ubuntu 10.10 and rather like it but been trying to setup and configure everything so its a feasible alternate OS.
I have a problem where one of my hard drives doesnt show up in places.
The drive works fine in windows.
The information provided to me by Disk Utility says:
Model: ATA WDC WD 10EADS-00L5B1
Partitioning: Master Boot Record
Device: /dev/sdb
Partition Type: HPFS/NTFS (0x07)
Now i have a total of 4 drives, windows 7 on one, linux on one, and 2 storage. Linux recognizes my main windows drive and my 2 TB storage drive, but not this one for some reason. I assume it has to do with the partition type? Disk utility just shows its parition bar image as 'unknown' so yeah. Now there is one error during boot related to this but i can't read it fast enough to remember it all, all i see is the sdb label real quick.
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Aug 2, 2011
How is it possible to add a new hpfs disk with utf16 encoding files system? I would like to add my windows 7 device at the boot beginning automaticly? I could mount in gnome with nautilus with a one mouse click.
Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
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Nov 16, 2010
I have have just installed 10.10 on my Acer Aspire laptop. I connected to the Internet during installation and therefore should be right up to date. Grub2 does not show Windows 7 as a boot option. Did a bit of searching and ran sudo update-grub2 but no success. I am a newbie as far as Ubuntu is concerned. I installed 9.04 on my netbook and that worked fine. I have the added problem in having to get into Windows very shortly and I haven't a clue how to do it if grub remains broken. Windows partition still there I have not deleted it.
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Nov 22, 2010
I am trying to access a Magneto Optical disk written under OS/2 hpfs filesystem. I cannot locate a dang thing about support of CentOS for OS/2. I found a module for Linux OS/2 support that dated back to 1993, have no idea how to compile it, used alien to create an RPM package, said compiled succesfully, still can't mount the drive (/dev/sdb) with filesystem type -t hpfs. Can anyone out there help me, or does CentOS just not do this?
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Sep 27, 2009
I have just installed Fedora 11 64bit on a new hard disk, using Intel 975BX2 motherbord, 3Gbyte RAM, 320Gbyte hard disk etc., USB mouse and keyboard. The installation went fine, but when I enter the password for the boot (I assume GRUB was installed) it fails to recognise the password. Do this three times and the boot segment ??? fails to initialise.
I recall a linux magazine i buy indicating that you have to copy and paste the password manually after installation, but i cannot recall the article date. Is this a problem - the password protection for the GRUB boot loader does not work at installation time when using the graphical interface ?. I did not use any odd characters - basic letters and numbers.
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Mar 23, 2010
It worked fine for awhile, but recently my usb keyboard wont work, ONLY IN GRUB. So I cant use grub to select another boot option. This kbd does work in Ununtu and on my other XP machine. Old version of Grub, I believe. (not GRUB 2). No error messages displayed.
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Mar 27, 2010
I have 2 internal harddrives.
I installed Vista on sdb1 and later Ubuntu on sda1.
When I boot up, I am given choice of OS's to boot into. That worked fine until I formatted sdb1 and installed Windows 7.
Now when I boot, I am given the exact same options as before, and when I select the the old "Vista" Menu item, it gives me an error that it can not find some long serial number. The number is not my drive serial number. That number is completely different.
I can still boot into Ubuntu with out a problem.
Now, in order for me to boot into windows, I have change the BIOS boot order. That is obviously not ideal.
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Jun 3, 2011
I recently installed Ubuntu 11.4 and I want dual-boot machine. Before Ubuntu on machine was installed only windows7. Since I install Ubuntu I do not see Grub(or any other) boot loader. When I start computer it automatically boot Ubuntu without prompting choose OS menu.
How can I set grub2 to ask me this question?
Here is my partition configuration
Code:
Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011
============================= Boot Info Summary: ===============================
=> Windows is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda.
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Jun 15, 2010
in my first start on fedora 13, with grub 0.97 did not recognize ubuntu licid, but recognizes winxp, now i try to change to grub 2 but, always begin whit grub1,
how i can replace grub1 by grub2 or how i can boot from grub2 of lucid?
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Oct 24, 2010
Installed 11.3, but GRUB doesnt recognize win7 despite the fact that it did say it recognizes it during installation. What now?
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Jul 24, 2010
So I am experimenting with other linux distros.....I just installed a small partition with OpenGEU, the one still based on Ubuntu.....now it wont recognize Mint. Ubuntu Studio is next on my list, but before I invest any more work I want to make sure I can add more partitions to grub, not just the most recent linux partition...
I think that future distros of linux should have a fix for this....if you install linux it should detect every other operating system on the disk, not just windows plus the most recent linux install.
install /boot separate? I always create a / and /home partition but never separate boot. Does that make life easier?
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Oct 13, 2010
i can't boot up my win XP after installing Ubuntu 10.10.
I decided to replace my Vista partition with Ubuntu 10.10 so i redo my partitions and split the current Vista partition to a swap and root partition and install Ubuntu 10.10
Everything went well and i got Ubuntu up and running. However, i realize that GRUB 2 didn't recognize my existing windows partition. I double-check on grub.cfg and see that the default os_prober didn't recognize my XP partition either.
After search on the internet for a while, i found many similar issue where most are fix when manually adding the entry yourself so i decided to add an entry 11_XP under /ect/grub.d/ for windows XP and confirm that the new entry are added to the update grub.cfg file before restarting
Code:
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/11_XP ###
menuentry "Windows XP" {
set root=(hd0,5)
insmod chain
drivemap -s (hd0)
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Feb 16, 2011
after new entry regarding memtest tool, grub doesn't see it.
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Apr 12, 2010
My 13 year old Pentium 3 1.3 ghz machine is finally ready to call it quits. specifically, my slave drive where all of my music is stored. I can access a very small portion of the the files on the HD, The files are still there but are not showing up. any ideas on how I could access this drive. I wanted to try to reinstall my os on the primary drive in hopes that it wouldget it working, unfortunately I've run into what's seems to be a common problem of my usb keyboard not being recognized.
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Oct 17, 2010
I had Windows 7 ultimate installed on my netbook and installed Ubuntu 10.10 using the 'Install alongside other OS's' option which put windows onto another partition and created one for ubuntu.
Anyway I've tried reinstalling the grub but I never get a grub boot menu when I boot it up and the grub won't recognize the windows install
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Jan 23, 2010
First time this has happened. I installed Fedora first (XP already installed) and then installed Ubuntu 9.10 64. Fedora doesn't show up on boot up menu. I've tried update-grub.
Before I would have just edited menu.lst, but now?? I dunno.
edit; Here's fdisk with Fedora on sda6
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Dec 23, 2010
I recently have installed Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Netbook Edition in my personal netbook. The thing is that I had installed Windows 7 in the hard disk drive so I decided to install Ubuntu alongside with it. After the process of installation everything was cool but I hadn't the Grub working. I then pressed the Shift button during the booting process so I got the Grub menu but it didn't show the Windows 7 partition. The Windows installation was not erased because its file system is present in Nautilus. I have tried reinstalling the Grub a thousand times but nothing changes. I have attached the results of the boot info script so you can have some info about my booting configuration.
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Jan 29, 2011
I have dual boot (winxp) which has been working for over a year now.But for some reason recently, grub wont recognise the keyboards arrow keys. ie cant change menu selection. in fact it wont recognise keyboard at all it seems. Pressing enter wont work either. I have to wait for the timeout.
The arrows work before hand (like in bios settings) and after once ubuntu has booted. Just not in the grub menu
Its something to with the USB wireless keyboard. If i replace it for standard PS2 kybd it works.
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Sep 30, 2010
My computer is currently dual boot: Windows 2000 on first hard drive (master) and Ubuntu 9.10 on the second hard drive (slave) using GRUB 2. Both drives are on the first IDE channel. I have a third drive with a DVD/CD drive on the second IDE channel (master and slave respectively). The only thing on this drive is my photo library, which is backed up on a server.If I were to temporarily remove the plug for the first two drives from the mother board and plug the third hard drive and DVD drive into the first IDE channel and install Windows XP on the third hard drive from the CD ROM, I would have a functioning Windows XP computer with just the hard drive and CD/DVD drive. The system would not know of the existence of the dual-boot configuration.
Now the question: Obviously, if I plug the drives back in the way they were originally, I will not have the choice on GRUB to boot into Windows XP on the third hard drive on the second IDE channel. When running from Ubuntu, can I do a GRUB update, and will it recognise the new Windows XP drive as a bootable option in the GRUB menu?I really don't want to take the chance of destroying my current dual-boot configuration (Win 2000/Ubuntu 9.10) by installing Windows XP on the third drive with the first two drives plugged in.I don't really want to take the time to experiment if there's no chance that GRUB will recognise the new Windows drive.I know. I'm a little old-fashioned. But when all my applications work fine on both platforms with the hardware
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Nov 20, 2010
my Setup is Fedora 14 x64 + radeon hd 4830 i've downloaded .run package from ati site with latest driver for x64 systems. installed it, but didn't edited grub.conf becouse i didn't understood anything there (probably didn't spent enough time to get things understand) Now i've lost possibility to enter my Fedora system. during boot it lost it's modern blue boot screen (with filling drop), it was replaced by standard old boot screen with triple-color stripe. after this boot screen monitor start blinking going on and off. and on last step i'm getting "Fedora 14 boot bla bla bla something" on screen. nothing works except Ctrl+Alt+Delete. system reboots showing successful daemons shutting sequence. How can i edit grub menu from initial grub screen is it possible to it's own 'e' option or 'c' from grub command line?
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Jan 1, 2011
I had a problem with centos 5 not recognising usb sticks dispite installing and using centos 5 on different computers. This was cured by slotting the stick in imediatly after start up which seems odd but I have seen others having similar problems.
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Apr 4, 2010
I installed the latest version of puppy linux on this Nobilis laptop and I am having a little trouble with the battery. As you can imagine being able to see the battery power left is a bit more then convenience. I am running it frugal install. Is there just a setting or something that I am flat out missing? I used the Hardinfo hardware information tool (A tool in puppy linux) and it also didn't find the battery.
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May 18, 2011
I am relatively new with PC configuration and Linux. The Windows 32 bit OS only recognize less the 4 Gb of RAM, their 64 bit OS goes to 8 Gb. Do the Linux OS have similar limits? I am using Ubuntu 10.04, but I am interested in a general Linux answer.
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Feb 1, 2010
I just upgraded my computer with a couple more sticks of RAM and have it up to 8G now. I duel boot so I know that Vista (64bit) recognizes my 8G, and Memtest86+ recognizes my 8G, but for some reason Fedora 9 (64bit) says it has 3.1 G RAM. Is this a problem with Fedora 9 (64bit) or is it some configuration thing I've missed?
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Jan 29, 2010
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Jul 5, 2010
I have Ubuntu 10.04 on a 500gb WD hdd and a second WD 500gb as my music drive. The bios sees the drive with my music but I cannot access the drive at all after booting up, i.e. I can't see the drive at all. I searched on here awhile and looked at the "similar threads" link but didn't find anything that seemed to answer this.
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Aug 1, 2011
Using Ubuntu 10.10, and a Aopen CD/DVD Drive, that when purchased it was suppose to read and write to everything. But my system will not recognize blank DVD-R or RW.
Everything works on the CD's writing/reading. I can play DVD movies, but thats it.
After many searches I found these posts and checked them out without any problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=DVD+disk
DVD Writer not detecting DVD-Rs
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&pp=50&page=12
I followed the Medibuntu instructions on http://www.medibuntu.org/
and that did not help either.
I purchased four different purchases of DVDs to make sure the problem was not the disks. I had that happen to me a few time with CDs.
I do not get any errors of any kind. The drive light goes on and off like it should.
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