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Mandrake 10.1 Boot Problems, Please Help
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Mandrake 10.1 Boot Problems, Please Help
I have 3 Hard Drives
1x Raptor 36 gig 2x 160 Gig IDE I have win xp installed on the sata raptor, and I installed linux on a 10 gig partition of one of the IDE's...I have changed my hard drive boot sequence to the one with linux being primary boot...so that works fine, it boots up and I can choose linux, linux safe, windows etc... The problem is when I boot linux, i get the error: /dev/sda1/ is not a valid block device I _can_ boot into the linux os after this message if i press the i key at the right time when booting, and it seems fine....it's just not a very convenient way to get into an os (randomly hitting the keyboard )So can anyone help? I think maybe if I can just get linux to completely ignore the raptor (sata, xp device) then it will boot fine...and this will work better anyway because I could do without any interactive between my linux and xp hard drives....don't want them to start a fight or anything huh ![]() thanks for reading :hotouch: |
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Most likely Linux is trying to mount your Windows partition but fails for some reason.
Look in /etc/fstab and comment out (add # in the beginning of the line) those lines that refer to your SATA drive (/dev/sda). |
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