On Tue, 18 May 2004 12:12:25 -0400 (EDT) "duncan brown" <duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sean Estabrooks said: > > > No you are wrong. > > No you are wrong. > > > > Please don't try to disuade him from trying. It may very well work > > for him. > > > > Cheers, > > Sean. > > sean, > could you please tell us why/how he is wrong? i'm pretty new at grub and > i'd like to know what's wrong with that (especially since i'm heading > towards a fc2 install dual booted with w2k) > Hi Duncan, It's still just a theory, but it looks like Grub actually starts numbering partitions based on their starting cylinder number whereas linux numbers them based on their physical order in the partition table. So depending on how you install XP you can have problems. The OP has windows XP in the first partition table slot so linux labels it /dev/hda1 but grub may not label it (hd0,0) because it is located at cyl 1461. I'm not sure how grub counts extended partitions which explains why i'm asking him to try ,3 and ,4. It looks like there is also another more severe problem with FC2 which may actually corrupt a partition table but am hoping that isn't what Boby is seeing. Hoping Boby will clarify if he tried this and if it worked or not for him. Cheers, Sean.
