On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Reshat Sabiq wrote: > Reshat Sabiq wrote: > > > Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > >>On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Reshat Sabiq wrote: > >>Boot the Rescue CD or CD 1 in rescue mode and tell us the result of > >>"fdisk -l /dev/hda". > >> > >> > >> > > Thanks Timothy and Matthew for your responses. > > Yes, this is a dual boot. > > This is how it's currently set up: > > /dev/hda1 1 1014 NTFS > > /dev/hda2 1015 3446 Extended > > /dev/hda3 3447 4661 Unused > > /dev/hda4 4662 4863 Unused > > /dev/hda5 1015 1024 /boot > > /dev/hda6 1025 3316 / > > /dev/hda7 3317 3446 swap I was looking in particular for the cylinder,block,sector numbers that you did not include in this listing. > > > > I never heard of boot having to be a primary partition, but maybe it > > has to be? It's currently a logical one. I believe that if you want the initial bootloader in /boot, then /boot needs to be primary. If grub is in the MBR or you chain to grub from the Windows bootloader, then you are probably OK with a logical /boot. (Maybe someone could confirm that...) > > I set this up using fdisk, and then went on to installing. If i try > > the same partitioning from the install CD, i get errors about failure > > to do disk-based (or cylinder based) partitioning. But once it's set > > up by fdisk in advance, the install CD accepts it just fine. > > Since it probably doesn't have much to do with LBA-32 or cylinders for > > /boot, i will likely try making everything folloing NTFS Unused (1 > > partition), and then go on to installing and see how the CD manages > > it. Once it's installed i could resize and re-partition the pieces i need. > > > > I'll let you know how it goes. > > > > Thanks, > > <rsa/> > > Forgot to mention: Windows boots fine. Trying restore from rescue CD was > unsuccessful: it reinstalled boot loader, but there's nothing about > partitioning. It looks like fdisk might be accepting partitioning that > is invalid. I haven't experienced invalid partitioning before, so don't > know what the criteria might be. I considered myself the king of > partitioning... :) If it's the usual dual-boot FC2 issue, it's Windows that is accepting (actually *expecting*) the improperly configured partition table, which Linux wants to fix. See, e.g, www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2T42.shtml for a description and links to more details. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
