Accessing my XP install without deleting the bootloader?

Reza · 01-February-07, 01:35 PM

Ok so I have a tri-bnoot of XP Home, Vista Ultimate and Suse 10.2 at the moment, I can access my Sue 10.2 install and my Vista Ultimate install but the Xp install comes up with.

\system32\hal.dll is missing please re-install, now looking around I know pretty much how to get the file back but I it seems to be linked to the windows bootloader which I don;t want, can I put the file back without making my Linux install dissapear?

Dex · 01-February-07, 01:47 PM

You should just be able to replace that file using the recovery console, launched from your XP disc.

HAL is the Hardware Abstraction Layer, which various Windows components use to talk to hardware... im pretty sure it won't affect your 3 way boot loader but don't quote me on that.

Even if your other OS's do dissapear, I can help you configure a boot loader such as GRUB to boot them.

reflux · 01-February-07, 02:57 PM

Everytime you mess with Linux something bad happens. That better not be on my XPS!

Fatsobob · 02-February-07, 08:01 AM

You should manually mount the drives on your suse instlal. It should be a matter of detecting the partition and then just mounting it to a folder.

mnt {hard drive} {mount location}

Reza · 02-February-07, 12:22 PM

Cheers guys, I decided that my machine needed a proper going over anyways, now just running Windows XP and Suse 10.2.

Having a new prob;em though, none of the video or music players eem to like my media, I just get told I need either plugins or doecs, anyway fancy explaining how the hell to install these in Linux?

Most of my music is MP3 and my videos are avi!

Dex · 02-February-07, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Reza


	fancy explaining how the hell to install these in Linux? Most of my music is MP3 and my videos are avi!

I would just use VLC.

Fatsobob · 02-February-07, 12:45 PM

Well Since AVI and MP3 are liscensed to corperations, they cannot be packaged with linux for legal reasons. Instead linux comes with open source stuff like ogg support and the Matroska Container for files. To get avi/mp3 to work in linux varies from distro to distro. Since I have never used Suse myself, all I can do is provide you with a generalization.
For AVI, install Mplayer using the package management that suse provides and if that doesn't work, install the codecs to mplayer manually.
For MP3, Amarok comes with MP3 support to my knowledge, if not, look up some kind of codec package.

If only this were arch linux "pacman -S codecs" WINNER!

Fire Hawk · 04-February-07, 12:36 AM

I had this problem once, with xine. there were a bunch of flags, turned off, so xine compiled without mp3 support, and, well, any kind of support, really.
try getting madlib, which is mp3 support, it stands for, mpeg audio decoder, and mpeg audio decoder spells good, well, until you hear flac
flac is very nice

EvilClown · 04-February-07, 05:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fire Hawk


	I had this problem once, with xine. there were a bunch of flags, turned off, so xine compiled without mp3 support, and, well, any kind of support, really. try getting madlib, which is mp3 support, it stands for, mpeg audio decoder, and mpeg audio decoder spells good, well, until you hear flac flac is very nice

Prime reason why I no longer run Gentoo.

Some distro's actually come with codecs. It really depends on what country the distro is based and the developers morals.

01-February-07, 01:35 PM		#1 (permalink)
Reza Apex Elite Expert Tech	Accessing my XP install without deleting the bootloader? Ok so I have a tri-bnoot of XP Home, Vista Ultimate and Suse 10.2 at the moment, I can access my Sue 10.2 install and my Vista Ultimate install but the Xp install comes up with. \system32\hal.dll is missing please re-install, now looking around I know pretty much how to get the file back but I it seems to be linked to the windows bootloader which I don;t want, can I put the file back without making my Linux install dissapear?

01-February-07, 01:47 PM		#2 (permalink)
Dex Retr-hoe Reviewer	Re: Accessing my XP install without deleting the bootloader? You should just be able to replace that file using the recovery console, launched from your XP disc. HAL is the Hardware Abstraction Layer, which various Windows components use to talk to hardware... im pretty sure it won't affect your 3 way boot loader but don't quote me on that. Even if your other OS's do dissapear, I can help you configure a boot loader such as GRUB to boot them.

01-February-07, 02:57 PM		#3 (permalink)
reflux Sempr0n?	Re: Accessing my XP install without deleting the bootloader? Everytime you mess with Linux something bad happens. That better not be on my XPS!

02-February-07, 08:01 AM		#4 (permalink)
Fatsobob Apex's Squirrel Revolutionary	Re: Accessing my XP install without deleting the bootloader? You should manually mount the drives on your suse instlal. It should be a matter of detecting the partition and then just mounting it to a folder. mnt {hard drive} {mount location}

02-February-07, 12:22 PM		#5 (permalink)
Reza Apex Elite Expert Tech	Re: Accessing my XP install without deleting the bootloader? Cheers guys, I decided that my machine needed a proper going over anyways, now just running Windows XP and Suse 10.2. Having a new prob;em though, none of the video or music players eem to like my media, I just get told I need either plugins or doecs, anyway fancy explaining how the hell to install these in Linux? Most of my music is MP3 and my videos are avi!

02-February-07, 12:45 PM		#7 (permalink)
Fatsobob Apex's Squirrel Revolutionary	Re: Accessing my XP install without deleting the bootloader? Well Since AVI and MP3 are liscensed to corperations, they cannot be packaged with linux for legal reasons. Instead linux comes with open source stuff like ogg support and the Matroska Container for files. To get avi/mp3 to work in linux varies from distro to distro. Since I have never used Suse myself, all I can do is provide you with a generalization. For AVI, install Mplayer using the package management that suse provides and if that doesn't work, install the codecs to mplayer manually. For MP3, Amarok comes with MP3 support to my knowledge, if not, look up some kind of codec package. If only this were arch linux "pacman -S codecs" WINNER!

04-February-07, 12:36 AM		#8 (permalink)
Fire Hawk Apex Tech Maniac	Re: Accessing my XP install without deleting the bootloader? I had this problem once, with xine. there were a bunch of flags, turned off, so xine compiled without mp3 support, and, well, any kind of support, really. try getting madlib, which is mp3 support, it stands for, mpeg audio decoder, and mpeg audio decoder spells good, well, until you hear flac flac is very nice

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