From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2fcd8539360f166e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-21 07:24:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!cyclone1.gnilink.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wes Groleau User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 / Ada / Cygwin / Win2k ? References: <3DAC4528.81F57BBD@despammed.com> <4519e058.0210161111.217a8c6b@posting.google.com> <4xCr9.1511$Bd4.11686@dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com> <5fe90c1a.0210171643.5d60d85f@posting.google.com> <4TUr9.1861$c6.2392@bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <76Us9.1529$Bd4.11784@dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:24:02 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.133.155 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1035210243 151.168.133.155 (Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:24:03 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 09:24:03 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29980 Date: 2002-10-21T09:24:02-05:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > Wes Groleau wrote: > >>Not sure. I booted up Linux (Mandrake) and verified that it >>filled less than two Gigabytes of a twelve GB partition. >> >>So I put the install CD in, and reinstalled. When I got >>to that point, I selected the second 12 GB partition and >>split it into nine and three. Formatted the nine to NTFS >>and the three to standard Unix. Installed Linux, and tried >>to reboot. Goes through about a screen and a half of >>startup messages and then hangs. Vulcan nerve pinch and >>power button disabled--have to unplug. > > > You mean you ran fdisk or similar on a mounted disc and repartitioned > it? No. I booted the Linux Install CD and tried to use that to repartition the _second_ partition (which Win2K calls D: but is unable to read). This partition had Linux on it at the time, but it was at the beginning of a twelve Gig partition, leaving eleven Gig empty. I tried to split it into 9 NTFS and 3 Linux. This appeared to succeed, and installing Linux into the three appeared to succeed. Obviously, installing Linux the first time in D: (which included splitting the 15 Gig D: into twelve and three and reformatting to UFS and swap) did succeed the first time. > Not sure I understand the setup. Did you have the linux partition before > the NT partition or after? I think windows will choke if you suddenly > create a partition before what is usually C: as this will then become D: After. See above. >>Selected NT from LILO boot menu. Screen says "Loading NT..." >>and nothing else for many minutes. Vulcan nerve pinch and >>power button disabled again. > > Did you run lilo after installing Linux. LILO runs at startup automatically. That's where I select which OS to boot. > Hmm this sounds very odd. I have never experienced anything like it, but > I'm not clear on how your disc looked like before you tried. But if you > used some program like partition magic or similar to spilt a partition > into two then this is not a safe way. The partitioning/formatting tool is a built-in part of the Linux install sequence. It worked the first time, trashed the disk this time. I've got Windows back now, but since it is 50% of my job and I have separate Solaris machines for the other 50%, I'm reluctant to try again. :-) I've forgotten how we got to this from a subject line of Re: GCC 3.1 / Ada / Cygwin / Win2k ? :-)