Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 11:01 -0500, John G. Heim wrote: > Before we go any further on this problem, I should ask if anybody else is > creating dual-boot systems with Windows 7 and FAI? I have done some, but I never was able to get grub2 to boot both Linux and Windows. I used the EasyBCD tool under Windows and booted via the Windows bootloader instead. More recently, we have switched to an entirely different approach of installing Windows 7 onto a Virtualbox VM, running under Debian. All the Windows7 systems that I have seen (both manufacturer-installed as well as fresh installs on virtual disks under VirtualBox) have a small hidden partition at the beginning of the disk (sda1). There are many web pages about the purpose of this partition, I have found http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-avoid-200mb-hidden-system-partition-from-been-created-during-windows-7-installation/ a rather good overview. Apparently this partition uses a strange (non-standard) number of blocks by default. Is it possible that this somehow confuses setup-storage in your configuration? Another idea: looking at your disk configurations (previous posts), it seems that you are trying to preserve only sda1 and you say nothing about sda2 in your disk config file. Yet sda2 is still present after the install, with Debian installed into logical partitions. Perhaps you should try to preserve sda2 as well? Toomas Tamm
Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot
Le 04/10/2011 18:01, John G. Heim a écrit : Before we go any further on this problem, I should ask if anybody else is creating dual-boot systems with Windows 7 and FAI? I think an important thing to know would be whether this is a FAI problem or if its just me. I am doing a rather weird Win7 install with an autounattend.xml answer file. So maybe its just me. I have successfully installed some. AFAIR I have preserved the 2 partitions that are used by Windows 7, and sometimes the diagnostic partition, and once Debian is installed os-prober inserts the appropriate line into Grub2, and both Windows & Debian Squeeze boot normally. -- Nicolas
Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot
From: "Nicolas Courtel" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:54 AM Subject: Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot I have successfully installed some. AFAIR I have preserved the 2 partitions that are used by Windows 7, and sometimes the diagnostic partition, and once Debian is installed os-prober inserts the appropriate line into Grub2, and both Windows & Debian Squeeze boot normally. Well, I am installing Win7 via an autounattend.xml file because I'm blind and i can't run the Windows installer. So I configured it to install everything in the first partition. I can install debian to the second partition via the netinst iso. If I had to preserve that partition, that wouldn't work. So I don't know why debian works and FAI doesn't. Anyway, I am guessing that this problem is more or less a result of the way I'm installing Win7. But I won't be doing that myself in the future. When we create dual-boot machines, my co-worker installs Windows and turns them over to me to install linux. I may have to change my disk_config for that but I can deal with that when it comes up. I guess I'll leave it up to the FAI developers, Thomas and Michael, as to whether they consider this a bug and whether they want to pursue it further. I am willing to keep working on it but I don't want to waste anybody's time just because I'm doing something weird.
