Bug#394963: installation: Problems with dual booting Dell D600 with winXP pro in the first partition (hd0, 0). After installing the Dell Etch Beta 3, Windows fails to boot and I get the blue screen of death.

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 08:33, Bobby Jafari wrote:
> Installing Etch is killing my windows XP install. I start with a BLANK
> HDD. Install windows, reboot and windows is fine. Then install Etch and
> grub writes to the boot partition the relevant info that it need. I now
> reboot and Debain Etch boot up. Reboot again and choose the windows
> partition, and within seconds I get the windows BLUE screen.

That is very strange as I have very recently done exactly the same and 
there were no problems at all starting Windows XP afterwards.

Some questions:
- Which filesystem did you use for XP? NTFS or VFAT?
- How did you install XP? To the whole disk or to a smaller partition?
- If you used the whole disk, how did you resize the partition to make
  room for Debian?
- How did you set up the partitions to be used by Debian?
- Can you reproduce the problem?

I have never seen any reports where only installing grub would cause these 
problems.

Cheers,
FJP