Hello all, The Short Story:
After re-arranging hard drives in two of my machines, I set out to reinstall sarge on my desktop. The hard drive had only one partition, a 30 GB FAT32 for WinXP. I downloaded the latest nightly from: http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/2004-11-15/netboot/debian-installer/i386/2.6/ And then installed them on my USB memory key. It booted fine, and installed fine. It autodetected WinXP on the hda1 and added an entry for it. However, when I tried to boot into WinXP, I got the chainloader messages, and then nothing, almost acting like Grub hangs. The Background: I had installed Fedora Core 2 in a test partition on the drive previously, and to boot back into WinXP, I had to run: sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --force --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda It seems that somewhere in the FC2 installer modified my HD geometry to the point where WinXP could not boot. After running this command, all was well. I also had to re-run the command before installing WinXP on the clean drive (in my previous configuration, the current hda was hdb). Everything ran fine after that. I got the info regarding the HD geometry change from: http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ I had already "repaired" my HD when I installed WinXP on my drive, and I booted into WinXP several times before installing sarge. I searched to see if other debian users had experienced this issue, but I didn't find any information. A brief search to this list didn't include anything. Is the disk partitioning utility in debian-installer making the HD geometry conform to the published standard, and that WinXP does not follow? Or is there some reason the geometry is being changed? Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
