[wellylug] SuSE 9.2 / Windows 2000 boot issues

[michael at diaspora.gen.nz]

"Jamie Dobbs" writes:
>> Wayne Koorts writes:
>>>something I've never done before.  I suspect that this may have somethi=
>ng
>>> to
>>>do with it.  I know the data is still intact as SuSE mounts it on boot
>>> and I
>>>can access the data fine (it's NTFS).
>>
>>>/dev/hda1   *           1          5649    45375561    c  W95 FAT32 (LB=
>A)
>>
>> Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't /dev/hda1 have a type of HPFS/NTFS,
>> not FAT32, in the partition table?  (I'm not saying that's your
>> problem, but it could be...)

Note that the original poster said the partition was NTFS.

>My guess is that the partition is not NTFS as if it was it would not moun=
>t
>with the wrong type flag on the partition table.

Mount from Linux, that is?  Linux doesn't look at the DOS partition
table's type flag, not after finding the root filesystem, anyway; from
the mount man page:

      If no -t option is given, or if  the  auto  type  is specified,
      mount will try to guess the desired type.  If mount was compiled
      with the blkid library, the guessing is done  by  this library.
      Otherwise,  mount  guesses  itself by probing the superblock; if

Note the bit about probing the superblock.

Windows, on the other hand, might well do (particularly as it has to find
its own "root filesystem", and that's where the type flag comes in handy).
    -- michael.