Hi Aaron, thks for stepping in. On 8/10/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 18:07 -0300, André Costa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this is somehow off-topic, but hopefully someone here has been through > > this already... > > > > I just bought a shiny new Core 2 Duo machine (Intel DG33BU mobo), with > > a nice 250G SATA disk. Fedora 7 installation went surprisingly well > > (and fast), only problem was that onboard NIC was not recognized, but > > upgrading the kernel offline fixed this. Everything is amazingly fast > > =) > > > > BUT... I need this machine to dual-boot to Windows XP (still addicted > > to some Windows-only games =( ). XP setup CD hangs just after showing > > "examining hardware configuration" or something like that. It doesn't > > really hangs, it just switches to a blank screen and sits there > > forever (I already left it there for more than 15min to no avail). > > Keyboard is responsive and HD led stays on. CTRL+ALT+DEL reboots as > > expected. > > > > I talked to IT guys at work and they told me they've been through this > > already lots of times, it seems XP is unable to properly recognize the > > disk when only Linux is installed on it (?!?), and only solution would > > be to reformat the whole thing and install XP first. > > > > Is that true? > > It is true that it is better to install XP first. I have had cases like > yours. Did you create a partition for XP? One can not tell from your > fdisk -l output. If not you are lost. > > However, If there is such a partition. make it type 7 with fdisk. Then > retry your XP install. I haven't created a partition for XP, but I just did that with gparted on the empty partition, and marked it as HPFS/NTFS (type 7): ~ fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 10467 83971755 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda3 10468 30401 160119855 7 HPFS/NTFS Still, nothing happens. ... stupid XP, I can't believe I'll have to reinstall everything because of it =/ If that's really the case, what should I do? Reboot from Fedora installation CD into rescue mode, run fdisk and remove all partitions? Something just occurred to me: what if I managed to boot from a Linux rescue CD, ran gparted and marked both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 as "hidden" partitions? Could this work? Regards, Andre
