On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2007/12/18 19:21 (GMT) michael apparently typed: > > > 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 > > I don't know all the details, but if your XP installation disk doesn't > include SP1 or above, you're in some kind of trouble. Your disks both require > LBA48 for access, which XP didn't have until SP1. Even though your NTFS > partition is below that requirement, its installer may be hanging on the > whole disk size. LBA48 is required for disks larger than 137GB/128GiB. Not sure where the LBA stuff comes in but it's a WinXP inc SP2 disk.
