Re: sarge install: dual-boot problem
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Jeroen Franken wrote:
> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 19:05:03 +0200
> From: Jeroen Franken <jeroenf@gmx.net>
> To: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: sarge install: dual-boot problem
> Resent-Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 12:06:28 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-testing@lists.debian.org
>
> Well, I've tried lots of different tools today, but nothing helps. A search on
> the internet revealed that most of the people that had a similar problem,
> ended up doing a low-level format (zerofill). I just ordered a 20 GB mp3
> player online (I wanted one anyway...), and I will back up all stuff, I want
> to keep, on it (it is a linux compatible plug&play device from iRiver :D).
> After that, a low level format will hopefully do... The partition layout is
> seriously ****ed up.
>
> Not the most beautiful solution, but I've got too much spare time ;)
I don't think that you mentioned which kernel (2.4 or 2.6) that you were
running while doing the installation, but if it was 2.6 you may want to
visit
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
(and in particular)
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html#troubleshoot
in your spare time ;).
More comments below.
Good luck!
Paul
> I will never ever let a linux installer partition a drive for me, again....
>
> ---
> Jeroen
>
> On Monday 05 July 2004 02:36, Adam Lydick wrote:
> > I've run into similar problems before. I don't recall how I finally
> > bailed myself out, but:
> >
> > That partition tables looks a bit sketchy -- you'll notice that you have
> > some overlapping paritions and that you have more than 4 primary
> > partitions. I don't think windows is going to behave in a sane manner
> > under those (out-of-spec) circumstances.
I don't think that it is possible to have more than 4 primary partitions.
To me it appears that there are 4 primary partitions (/dev/hda[1234],
with /dev/hda4 being an extended partition that contains logical partition
/dev/hda5.
I don't see any overlapping partitions either. It appears that the
partitions may have been renumbered though.
> > I'd (carefully) try to fix up your partition table and write it to disk,
> > then try to run "fixboot" and "fixmbr" from the XP recovery CD.
> >
> > You might dig through installation bug reports w/ my name attached to
> > see if I put additional info into it.
> >
> > -- Adam
> >
> > On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 15:57, Jeroen Franken wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > ADDITIONAL INFO:
> > >
> > > fdisk -l output:
> > > Disk /dev/hda: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
> > > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 119150 cylinders
> > > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> > >
> > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > > /dev/hda1 * 1 20815 10490728+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > > /dev/hda2 95324 118157 11508336 83 Linux
> > > /dev/hda3 20815 95323 37552315+ 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
> > > /dev/hda4 118158 119150 500472 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > > /dev/hda5 118158 119150 500440+ 82 Linux swap
--snip--
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