GRUB ... extended partition ... Windows XP
Hi All -
I will try to make this short, but it feels like an epic at this point. :)
I'm trying to create a 6-OS laptop (80gig hard drive on a Dell Inspiron
4100): WinXP, Debian and Slackware Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris 10
x86.
My first try was with a primary partition for Windows and an extended
partition w/ 5 logicals for the rest. The short version of what I
encountered: GRUB did great autodetecting and booting WinXP, Debian and
Slackware. Once I installed NetBSD, however, I found that the NetBSD
bootloader did fine with WinXP and NetBSD but could not seem to boot
either Linux system.
Went back and forth with that a couple of times, then tried recasting the
disk to an extended partition for WinXP, Debian and Slack (and swap
space), then primary partitions for NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris; however,
I didn't get far because this time around GRUB autodetected WinXP, Debian
and Slackware fine, but will not boot Windows. What I get when I try is
this:
Booting Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,4)
filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
savedefault
makeactive
Error 12: Invalid device requested
... which is sort of confusing to me. Unless I am mistaken, '0x7' /is/ the
correct filesystem type. Plus, GRUB recognized the partition correctly
upon installation. So I'm not sure what direction to take, though I've
found a lot of various hints across the 'Net.
The one oddity I am dealing with now is that somehow, after converting the
Windows partition to extended/logical, I wound up with a small drib of a
partition - 8mb - at the beginning of the disk ... which I never intended
to create. Tried to boot Partition Magic and get rid of it, but failed. So
I don't know whether that little partition-ette is causing problems, or
whether Windows XP just doesn't like being on a logical partition ...
If anybody has any good hints/advice, I would most appreciative. Thanks!
Regards,
Glenn Becker
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