On 18 Dec 2007, at 18:03, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2007/12/18 15:10 (GMT) michael apparently typed:
I'm looking for a solution for (re-)installing WinXP on my slave disk
when I have Fedora and LVM on the master disk. In the past I've
opened
up the box and unplugged the Fedora/LVM disk in order for WinXP to
install okay. But this seems much too drastic. Even swapping disk
order
(in BIOS) doesn't help - WinXP installation sits there "forever" when
checking current config.
Whilst I cannot find any definite reference stating "MS WinXP cannot
handle LVM" it does seem to be the culprit.
Anybody got any such definitive references or other help?
It might help us help you to see the output of fdisk -l for each disk.
mkb@veri:~$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda
Password:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 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 60801 488279610 8e Linux LVM
mkb@veri:~$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1305 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 1306 91201 722089620 83 Linux
