Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386

2004-06-14 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Franz Amador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I dunno. I had, at various times, installed two > versions of Mandrake and one of Red Hat, and none of > them moved my XP partition. It's been a while, but I > believe I initially partitioned the drive with Win98 > in primary partition 1, WinXP in prim

Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386

2004-06-14 Thread Franz Amador
--- Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because you probably asked for the creation of 2 > partitions while > there was only one before. It is then logical that > the partition > numbering is then changed. Or, more generally > speaking, the number of > Linux partition after Debian insta

Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386

2004-06-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Franz Amador ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Thanks for the reply. I figured out what happened. > The Debian installer changed the partition number of > my XP partition, I think by changing it from a primary > partition to a logical partition. > > After a lot of Googling, I learned that the NT bo

Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386

2004-06-13 Thread Franz Amador
Thanks for the reply. I figured out what happened. The Debian installer changed the partition number of my XP partition, I think by changing it from a primary partition to a logical partition. After a lot of Googling, I learned that the NT boot loader is a program named ntldr in my Win98 C:\ tha

Re: Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386

2004-06-12 Thread Christian Perrier
> When the system rebooted I did not immediately boot > Debian to continue the install. Instead, I asked GRUB > to boot Windows, which correctly booted the NT boot > loader. When I asked the NT boot loader to boot > WinXP, however, XP errored out with a message saying > that \system32\hal.dll wa

Sarge Test Candidate 1 broke WinXP on my triple-boot i386

2004-06-12 Thread Franz Amador
Until last night I had an i386 triple-boot system with Win98, WinXP, and Mandrake. LILO in the MBR would boot either Linux or the NT boot loader (which LILO labeled "Windows"), which lived in the first partition I believe. The NT boot loader would then boot either Win98, in the FAT32 first partit