[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc booting troubles

[Daniel Dalton]

Hi Hans,

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 09:59:48PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> Check out, if it is /dev/sda3 or /dev/sda1. It must be /dev/sda1, as /dev/sda3 

Yes I had a look and found where I am going wrong. It looks like when I
did the resize the whole sda1 partition was erased. (I've done many dual
boot systems before and this is the first time its happened!) So I feel
like an idiot now :), but it looks like I'm going to have to undertake
some kind of recovery as sda1 that used to have windows on it is
completely blank. Sda3 does indeed have the recovery partition still on
it. 

> is the rescue system for windows7. Be careful, when you use this rescue 
> system: It will completely repartition and restore the system as it was 
> shipped!!! 

I've got no data on the machine of my own as I only got it 2 days
ago. So is my best bet to do a recovery, then reinstall debian
considering the troubles I'm having with that too?

> Add the line for windows 7 as follows manually into the grub menu.lst for 
> windows (I assume you are running grub-legacy):

Ugh, I installed debian testing -- sorry forgot to point that out. maybe
I should install lenny then update to squeeze? I need squeeze for the
accessibility stuff it provides (due to being blind).

> 
> title 		Windows7

I think the new grub uses grub.conf, however, I don't have any idea of
how this config works.

> to start windows from the first partition - if windows is still bootable.

Hmm, I doubt it is now I discover I've somehow with gparted wiped the
entire windows partition. 

> > I try the two debian ones and get errors regarding the root file system
> > and it doesn't boot more than a recovery console.
> > 
> 
> If you get errors in linux, try to change variables in grub, as long as grub 
> is still working. Most wrong setings are at the variables "hd(0,3)" or similar 
> and at the pointer to the root-filesystesm, which isu set by root=/dev/sda4" or 
> similar.  

Is this in grub.conf?

> No, I suppose there is not, exept the one I described above, which restores 
> only windows and kills debian.

I wouldn't mind starting from scratch, would this give me back the
original partition scheme? How do I invoke the recovery?

Once I have got windows booting again is it safe to delete sda2 so there
is room for an extended partition...?

Thanks very much for your help!

Daniel