Hi Rick, On 8/10/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 19:03 -0300, André Costa wrote: > > 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? > > All versions of Windows (except perhaps Vista...haven't tried it) think > they they own the entire system. If there's any non-Microsoft > filesystem on the disk, the installer stalls. You have to purge the > disk and install Windows first. When you install Windows, only give > it as much disk as you want...make sure the rest is "unused space". > > NOW you can install Fedora. Anaconda will see the Windows stuff and > add it to the grub configuration allowing you to multiboot. Sounds pretty much like MS usual way of handling things, right? ;-) Thks for the info, it really looks like I'll need to redo the whole thing, starting with XP this time -- unless my "partition hiding" move described on a previous message works... fingers crossed ;-) Regards, Andre
