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Swapping with grub prevents accessing FAT32 dos drive
From: |
Burzek |
Subject: |
Swapping with grub prevents accessing FAT32 dos drive |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:59:26 +0200 |
Hi,
Here is the list of my hdd and partition configs.
Primary Master HDD:
Total 20 gigs: has 2 partitions both Fat32
- 8 gb FAT32 is drive c:
- 12 gb FAT32 is drive e:
Primary Slave HDD:
Total 20 gigs: has 1 Fat32 partition is drive d:
I installed Mandrake 8.1 as partitionless to Primary Master HDD to 8gig
partition.
Grub is in charge of boot loading now.
I got my windows 98 in the Primary Slave HDD.
The problem is , when I boot and swap the harddrives with
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
I can see and access both drives;
drive C: that is hd0,0 and drive D: that is hd1,0.
However, even I see the drive letter "E" from dos programmes, I can
not access to drive E: that is hd0,1
It is a 12gb FAT32 partition, dos Fdisk sees the drive logically as
e: but reports the logical drive filesystem as unknown.
THIS PROBLEM ONLY happens when drives are swapped with map method.
When I boot win98 via GRUB without swapping drives, I can access to my
drive e:
I tried to use the -unhide option and lots of stuff, but as a newbie could not
do anything.
One more thing when I get the geometry, the GRUB shows the partition
as hd0,4.
However, when I try to unhide hd0,4 , it says there is no such
partition...
Please help, what commands should I use to access my Fat32 partition?
Thanks...
Burzek
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