Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386
--- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> Because you probably asked for the creation of 2
> partitions while
> there was only one before. It is then logical that
> the partition
> numbering is then changed. Or, more generally
> speaking, the number of
> Linux partition after Debian install was different
> from the number of
> Linux partitions before.
>
> What was before partition number 2 is now partition
> number 3. Or 4, or
> 1, or whatever...
>
> As boot.ini relies on the partition numbering scheme
> for naming
> partitions, it becomes logical that the NT boot
> loader is confused.
>
> The same would happen with another Linux
> installation if this another
> install uses several partitions-->its /etc/fstab
> could need to be
> changed if the number of partition changes.
>
> In your case, there is no solution rather than
> manual fixing after the
> installation. Any solution would involve changing
> the boot.ini file
> which is certainly *not* to be done.
I dunno. I had, at various times, installed two
versions of Mandrake and one of Red Hat, and none of
them moved my XP partition. It's been a while, but I
believe I initially partitioned the drive with Win98
in primary partition 1, WinXP in primary partition 2,
and created partition 3 as extended with two or three
Linux logical partitions, depending on which Linux I
had installed at the moment. Seems to me that Debian
could easily have replaced the previous Linux
partitions without changing the WinXP partition from
primary to logical. That's apparently what Mandrake
and Red Hat had done.
> I don't really understand why you ask your NT boot
> loader to load
> another Windows flavour. Why not just leave this to
> GRUB also? Using
> two boot loaders simultaneously highly increases the
> probability of
> some mess happening..:-)
Because that's what I was originally able to get to
work, perhaps based on something I read on the net...
I've just read the GRUB manual, and doing it all with
GRUB looks easy and tidier. I'll give it a shot.
Franz
Reply to: