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.
Dear Frans,
- Which file system did you use for XP? NTFS or VFAT? NTFS
- How did you install XP? To the whole disk or to a smaller partition?
I started by installing windows XP. While running XP installation, I
deleted everything from the HDD, I then created a 25G partition and left
a 15G empty space on the disc. Windows XP was then installed on the
25Gig partition.
- If you used the whole disk, how did you resize the partition to make
room for Debian? No need to, there was already empty space provisioned
for Debian.
- How did you set up the partitions to be used by Debian? A single EXT3
partition for / and a 1Gig /swap partition.
- Can you reproduce the problem? YES, I can reproduce it every time. And
If I use my SARGE disc, I wont get the BLUE screen of death. Its got to
be the Etch install. I tried three times using Etch NetInstall Beta 3
and the result was the same. Blue screen of death.
Regards,
Bobby
-----Original Message-----
From: Frans Pop [mailto:elendil@planet.nl]
Sent: Saturday, 28 October 2006 7:36 AM
To: Bobby Jafari; 394963@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: 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.
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
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