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I started getting a head ache reading this one, lol, so I will give you a quick reply. Things you should probably do.<BR>
1. Keep it simple, if this is just a workstation, go with the default setup of the partitions.<BR>
2. Keep the windows side down to a small partition, it won't get fragmented as bad.<BR>
3. Try to loose the WinME if you can, if not, install that first, give it say a 5GB partition at most, with a dual boot, you can use the Linux side to store everything. <BR>
4. After Windows installs properly and can start and reboot without problems, put in the Linux cd and boot.<BR>
5. Go with the auto partition from Linux and remove all previous Linux partitions.<BR>
6. Install and enjoy.<BR>
Problems that might arise....<BR>
1. The Linux installs that I do (RedHat) default to setting in LILO of "linear", if your using LILO for the boot loader that is. If you do not see the LILO screen after the Linux install, it has a problem with this line. You need to run the rescue mode from the Linux cd and mount your Linux install in rescue mode, change the line of "linear" to "lba32" in the file /etc/lilo.conf and then rerun lilo by typing "lilo" after you change the file. If it comes back ok, you should see your lilo screen on the reboot.<BR>
2. If you are jumping around from different disks, you will need to (map) the drives in the /etc/lilo.conf file, with a statement like this, <BR>
table=/dev/hdb<BR>
map-drive=0x80<BR>
to=0x82<BR>
map-drive=0x82<BR>
to=0x80<BR>
adjust accordingly. Hope some of this helps ya. <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 00:02, Michael Brown wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>Greetings All,
I recently installed a new 200GB hard drive in my PC. Previously, I had
2 40GB drives. One partitioned for Windows ME and one partitioned for
Linux (Mandrake/Redhat, whatever the flavor of the week happened to be).
This dual boot system worked great.
The problem now is I can't seem to get the dual boot to work correctly
with a single hard drive.
I have tried several different ways to partition the new drive. I have
been able to install windows and get it setup fine. Then I setup Linux
and all goes well until I have to reboot into windows. Currently,
windows reports an registry error and does not boot not even in safe
mode. Previously, I booted to the startup disk and ran scanreg then it
reports several missing files and instructs me to reinstall windows.
I posted the output of fdisk /dev/hde below:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 608 4883728+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) C:
/dev/hde2 609 2432 14651280 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) D:
/dev/hde3 2433 7722 42491925 85 Linux extended
/dev/hde4 7723 24321 133331467+ 83 Linux /archive
/dev/hde5 2433 2675 1951866 83 Linux /
/dev/hde6 2676 2736 489951 82 Linux swap
/dev/hde7 2737 3952 9767488+ 83 Linux /usr
/dev/hde8 3953 5168 9767488+ 83 Linux /var
/dev/hde9 5169 7600 19535008+ 83 Linux /home
/dev/hde10 7601 7722 979933+ 83 Linux /tmp
I did use cfdisk to setup this partition scheme. I also ran the command
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 on hde1 and hde2 per man
fdisk. cfdisk originally setup hde3 as type f (win95 ext'd) which caused
windows to "see" a third partition. But, I was able to boot back and
forth to Linux and windows until fsck complained of errors on hde4 and
they were too numerous to repair so I formated the partition again (it
was blank). Then windows could not boot.
Changing hde3 to type 85 (Linux extended) cured the ghost partition
under windows after reformatting C: again.
I should also note that during the current Mandrake 9.2 install lilo
found 2 windows installations. I did delete the windows2 option. But now
while Mandrake boots fine windows does not.
Is this a partitioning issue or perhaps do I need to switch the bootable
flag from hde1 to hde5?
I am hoping there is a simple solution without the need to repartition,
format, reinstall, etc. (again!) But, if I must, I will as long as I
know how to get it right this time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Michael Brown</I></FONT></PRE>
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