On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, hitesh gaa wrote:
I had linux 9.0 installed and had partioned it automatically during
Okay, considering the sarcastic reply from Manish, you should now learn to differentiate between a distribution and the kernel of the operating system you are using.
Red Hat Linux 9.0 is a distribution. Linux is the kernel which runs the whole system. A GNU/Linux System is a Linux kernel bundled with GNU tools (ls, mv, cp, other utilities) developed by Free Software Foundation. This combination makes a usable operating system.
Another reason we stress differentiating between distro names and generic 'Linux' is because there are differences in the way each distribution handles packaging of software, as well as placement of files on the system. If you are not smart enough to figure out what distribution you are using, you shouldn't be asking questions but reading documentation on Linux first.
Now back to your questions, 'Linux 9.0' may be Red Hat Linux 9.0 or Mandrake Linux 9.0, both do auto-partitioning of hard disks. how am I supposed to know which one you are using? For speedier replies including little more info about what you exactly want is important.
installation. Now due to norton antivirus my mbr was corrupted and i thought by working in rescue mode and doing a 'dd' copy everything would work fine however during booting it directly went to windows without even prompting.
Because you copied the original MBR (before Linux was installed) back.
By the fdisk of windows i came to know, that i still had the linux partitons but they were showing up as extended dos partitons.
OK.
By some R&D i came to know that windows had enabled a large disk support by which my mbr was extended to 604 bytes and i think this is where the problem lied. However in rescue mode i came to know that actually my mbr was still 512 bytes.
Never heard of extended MBR, tell us where you got this. BTW the "large disk support" only gives you FAT32 instead of FAT16, so...
I think this is a bug in the linux rescue. Moreover
No it is not.
the rescue mode told me that my windows was /dev/hda1 whereas actually
which is correct.
windows fdisk#told me it was /dev/hda2. Now neither rescue mode nor
Check again. C: = /dev/hda1. Windows fdisk doesn't know about /dev/hda. But there is a Linux program also called 'fdisk' which does.
installation worked.##So i deleted the extended partition and i thought reinstalling 9.0 would solve the problem. But during installation anaconda terminates abrubtly and flashes a error 'received signal 11' i tried to find out what this signal 11 is but to no use. Plz help i need to reinstall 9.0 as fast as possible.
'received signal 11' means the anaconda process was interrupted due to a memory access violation. Look up man page of 'kill' and 'signal'. For now choose install, but partition manually, delete all existing Linux partitions. Then recreate them as you want, or you can choose auto-partitioning again. Just make sure not to touch you widows partition. Read Red Hat's installation manual and Partition-HOWTO on the net.
Best regards, Rajesh