Am Mi, den 01.09.2004 schrieb Richard Heldmann um 2:27: > I tried an install this past weekend, and the machine gave me the same > error message when I loaded the CHS geometry(I was trying to avoid > the dual boot bug). > > Without the CHS geometry, the install proceeds fine, but when finished, I > can't boot XP. I could boot into Fedora and into the Dell Diagnostic > Utility hidden partition. As I remember, the Dell Utility hidden partition > was given as I see. Changing the BIOS setting for the drive from AUTO to LBA did not work? > (hd0,0). So I thought I could just modify the grub.conf file to (hd0,1), > to access the XP partition, but that file did not save correctly. So I > thought > I had a bad partition table. I could not access my hard drive with the > Fedora > Rescue disk and could not issue the command: > sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda > or the command fdisk -l /dev/hda That is curious that /dev/hda was not accessable from CD1 in rescue mode. Please check your BIOS settings, maybe install a newer BIOS version if available. > I ended up using: fdisk /mbr and that allowed me to boot back into XP. One > other thing I have noticed since then, is that my Knoppix 3.6 CD can read my > hard disk. The command: fdisk -l /dev/hda works and the command > sfdisk -d /dev/hda also works. I don't know if I can write to it. You can do the same from the Knoppix CD. > What a mess! I am lost. http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc2.shtml That page you probably know already, at least it's content. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) kernel 2.6.8-1.521smp Serendipity 02:54:36 up 2 days, 11 users, load average: 0.82, 0.48, 0.44
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