Re: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!)
David Baron composed on 2015-10-25 17:29 (UTC+0200):
> after the last adventure, what can I do?
Partition in advance of starting any installer. It's your machine. You get to
have it your way if you take the trouble to make it so. There's no good
excuse to get stuck with illogical partition allocations no matter how big or
small the disk.
I never use an OS installer's partitioner for anything more than selecting
which partitions to mount where. I always have the sizes I want, located
where I want them, before installation begins.
With a virgin or wiped HD, I typically boot Knoppix to do the partitioning,
which is comprised in every case of 3 (very) small primary partitions at the
front of the disk, regardless what operating systems will be installed.
Typically I make one or two FAT and the other EXT2, or two EXT2 and one FAT.
Everything OS goes in logicals. If I will have no other FAT partitions, the
first logical is made Linux swap. The primaries are homes for bootloaders,
Grub Legacy on EXT2, and whatever Windows, OS/2 or DOS wants on FAT (which
newer Windows versions typically convert to NTFS).
MBR here is always legacy/BIOS/DOS/Windows compatible. Only after I have Grub
working from an EXT2 primary do I begin any OS installation. Linux
bootloaders installed by distro installers here always go on / partitions.
Consequently, no installation gets an opportunity to corrupt any other
installation's ability to boot.
All installations on my own machines are multiboot. Consequently, whenever an
installation manages to become unbootable, it's a simple matter to boot
something else to perform repairs, no need to hunt for suitable rescue CD,
DVD or stick. Because of using standard MBR code, the worst thing a Windows
installation will do is move the boot flag, simple to move again from
anything that will boot, so it doesn't matter when or if Windows or anything
else needs ever to be re-installed.
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