On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 06:49, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > I am sorry to jump into this late since I didn't see your original post, > *but* I just did an install here on my laptop that had Win-xp on it. > > I looked at Gnu/Parted and Randish(sp) for partition resize tools, but > neither looked promising for the NTFS type. I decided on Partition Magic 7 > which did the job. > > Next, I did a base install and booted. That is when the error occurred > locally, and the hard drive wouldn't boot *anything*. After I booted off my > Woody-cd1 (in rescue mode), my brother found that when I used cfdisk, I had > made both win-xp & Linux partitions bootable. He simply toggled the boot > switch on the Linux partition, wrote the data, and suddenly I was able to > boot into Lilo from the hard drive. > > If you made the same mistake as me, then perhaps this might help you solve > your problem.
Thanks, but that would be too easy in my case I guess ;) But I give it a shot ....: -------------------------------------------------------- root@ringwraith:/ >fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1559 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1355 10243768+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1356 1525 1285200 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda3 1526 1553 211680 82 Linux swap /dev/hda5 1356 1525 1285168+ 83 Linux -------------------------------------------------------- No, still in the same state it was before the accident. But thanks anyway, it was worth checking. The original post was referring to this problem, I guess I have to fix this somehow: -------------------------------------------------------- root@ringwraith:/ >fdisk -l /dev/hda1 Disk /dev/hda1: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1354 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1p1 ? 505 112914 849806598+ 72 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(361, 105, 45) should be (361, 239, 63) /dev/hda1p2 ? 92238 140400 364099898 72 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(109, 116, 32) should be (109, 239, 63) /dev/hda1p3 ? 11097 11097 0 45 Unknown Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(358, 110, 52) should be (358, 239, 63) /dev/hda1p4 186982 186985 25947 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(0, 0, 0) should be (0, 239, 63) Partition table entries are not in disk order -------------------------------------------------------- W2k booting stops after a while. before the login screen. But since I can still access the data after mounting hda1 under linux, it is not that bad. What really annoys me that I can't play DiabloII or WarcraftIII anymore ;) Cheers all, have fun Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]