On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 03:26:05PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:30:55PM +0200, Elton Algera wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:32:23PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > > > Is there any diagnostic information I should gather? how? > > Or is there a possible hardware problem -- one that lets Linux > work fine, lets Windows format partitions correctly, but does > not let it install? I did have a motherboard replaced recently. > > > > > > > Yes, boot from the sarge installer disk, go to a terminal by pressing > > alt-F2 and do "fdisk -l". > > This gives you the current state of your partition table, then you know > > if windows did only format a partition or the whole disk instead. > > It can't have formatted the whole disk (though I was worrked at the time), > because both Linuxes still boot fine. Windows' C: partition is perfectly > readable and writable by Linux, and is empty. > > In case it's still of interest, this is the output of fdisk -l: > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80054059008 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155114 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 24975 12586896 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda2 25022 111563 43617168 5 Extended > /dev/hda3 113460 130114 8393962+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 138450 155104 8393962+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda5 25022 29150 2080417+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda6 31206 41550 5213092+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda7 43590 45661 1044225 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda8 49710 55941 3140707+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda9 60037 66269 3140707+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda10 70365 78684 4192965 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda11 86971 93203 3140707+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda12 109953 111563 811282+ 82 Linux swap I'm not sure about this partitioning scheme. In most cases the extended partition is the last one, in your case it's not. Are you absolutely sure that the windows installer picked the hda1 partition to install in? You can check the contents from linux: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ls -al /mnt/windows If you don't see the windows install, it's somewhere else. Are you sure you need all those FAT32 partitions? Also, you don't seem to have a boot partition, in this case that makes the setup very complex, especially with grub. > lovesong:/home/hendrik# > > sarge is on /dev/hda3, > woody is on /dev/hda4, > and Windows is NOT on /dav/hda1 > > -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-testing-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > >
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