On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 02:43:06 -0700, consul tores <consultor...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/10/23 consul tores <consultor...@gmail.com>: >> 2010/10/23 David Van Mosselbeen <david.van.mosselb...@telenet.be>: >> >>> Hi, >>> Kinda late to reply on this, but yah... >>> >>> My wife own a Compaq laptop with Windows 7 preinstalled. A few days ago >>> i >>> have installed Debian testing (the daily netinst cd) on it. I have >>> resized >>> the windows NTFS partition with the debian installer. Just select that >>> option to manualy manage the partition when you are on the partitions >>> screen. Then i created the needed linux partitions. Then installed the >>> base >>> install and installed all my lovely toys. >>> >>> All was ok, just got a little bonus issue, nothing to do with the >>> partitioning (i think). Grub not showing the windows 7 entry in the >>> bootloader menu. os-prober was been detecting 3 Windows operating >>> systems >>> (1 win7 and 2 of Vista which i don't have). Had need to run update-grub >>> to >>> get this issue fixed. Well, i still have an issue with showing 3 windows >>> operating systems in the bootloader, but that's another issue :) Maybe >>> the >>> black magic of the Compaq recovery utility for Windows. I still need to >>> check. >>> >>> Anyway, i recommend you make a good backup before doing irreversible >>> things. >>> >>> Bah, i guess your install is already done a few days ago :) But so you >>> know about this one which i find kinda nice and easy to do. >>> >>> Have a nice day all, >>> David, >> >> Hello David >> >> Just by curiosity! Have you tested your HD using cfdisk, fdisk or sfdisk? >> could you please show the output? > > Ooops, i send it privately; David, could you please show the output of > fdisk and sfdisk? > > -- > Consultores Agropecuarios. > Administracion, Produccion, Capacitacion.
Hi Tores, It's good that you talk about it. Seems that there's a little issue with the partitions. cfdisk complains with: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder Press any key to exit cfdisk And here's output of fdisk: # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x1d0caa27 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 26 203776 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 26 48657 390625000 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 59018 60802 14329856 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 48657 59018 83225601 5 Extended /dev/sda5 48657 49629 7812096 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 * 49629 59018 75412480 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order And even sfdisk complains: # sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 60801 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary. DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently. Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0+ 25- 26- 203776 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 25+ 48656- 48631- 390625000 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 59017+ 60801- 1784- 14329856 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda4 48656+ 59017- 10362- 83225601 5 Extended /dev/sda5 48656+ 49628- 973- 7812096 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 * 49628+ 59017- 9389- 75412480 83 Linux I wonder if this issue happen due the installer or the black magic that is behind that Compaq recovery tool and partition. Or even if that's why os-prober react so and the need to run update-grub manually. I should stratch my head. I don't know concequences this could have, nor how to fix it yet. Need to check. I can't reproduce it in vmware-server right now. There's and issue to install it on Squeeze, i need to investigate that also. Kind regards, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/a3aea3c5f135a76b5a6dade420d7c...@sun.pinguin.local
