Re: RC1 Installer causes problems for windows xp dual boot
Further investigation suggests this may be a known parted problem which
may be fixed by the latest release of parted -
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-08/msg00046.html
More details on the problem as seen on fedora is available here -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113201#c13
Should http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254502 be upgraded
to critical to track this or should I submit a separate bug report to
allow verification that this is the same problem?
An intermediate work-around might be to not install using a 2.6 kernel
(maybe one for the debian installer release notes?).
-stephen
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Stephen Mulcahy [sysadm] wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:05:07 +0100 (IST)
> From: "Stephen Mulcahy [sysadm]" <stephen@csn.ul.ie>
> To: debian-boot@lists.debian.org
> Subject: RC1 Installer causes problems for windows xp dual boot
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried an 2.6 kernel install using the RC1 installer and encountered some
> problems. I'll document the minor problems later on. I encountered one
> major problem.
>
> I used the debian installer to create 3 logical partitions (/, /home and
> swap) and installed grub as the boot-loader. During the grub install, it
> successfully picked up my windows partition and added that to the boot
> menu.
>
> When I rebooted however, grub failed to boot windows xp for me. In
> particular, when I selected the windows xp option, grub proceeds until the
> point where it hands over control to the windows xp boot-loader (it seems
> like, I'm not a windows expert) and it then hangs indefinitely.
>
> I can see no documentation in debian (or reported problems) indicating any
> problems like this but I did come across this
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980 which seems to
> have the same symptoms.
>
> Would the RC1 install using a 2.6 kernel make any changes to the partition
> table? If so, I think we need to sort this before release. In my time
> installing and using Debian, I've never had it hose a windows install like
> this.
>
> For reference, I've tried the following to revive my windows install, all
> to no avail.
>
> 1. booted up to windows recovery console and ran combinations of fixmbr,
> fixboot and bootcfg. No change.
> 2. Reset the mbr using ms-sys (debian package) and reinstalled windows in
> repair mode.
> 3. Reset the mbr using ms-sys and did a complete reinstall of windows
> (without formatting the disk first).
>
> The only thing I haven't tried is a format and reinstall of windows -
> before I do that I want to know if there is any information I can provide
> (fdisk -l output etc.) that would be useful before I do a reinstall?
>
> Thanks to everyone for their great work on the installer. I'd like to help
> to get this particular problem sorted before the release of Sarge but I'd
> also like to get my system up and running again so if anyone does need
> anything, please advise by this evening.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -stephen
>
>
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