Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386
Quoting Franz Amador (fgamador@yahoo.com):
> 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'm *sure* that the Debian install does not do this. As far as I have
understood the problem, this is not the reason of your problem. It
occurred because you removed ONE partition and got TWO created, which
renumbered the further partitions on the disk.
This basically comes from using the autopartitioning system after
removing one partition. It created two partitions (swap and /).
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