Re: Partitioning for XP & Linux, How Much for What?

From: Arno Wagner (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: 8 Oct 2004 22:06:28 GMT

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Matt <matt@themattfella.zzzz.com> wrote:

>>chrisv wrote:
>>> "Dave C." <mdupre@sff.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>After Windows XP is fully installed, tested, and running fine, THEN install
>>>>linux. (I'd suggest Mandrake linux or redhat fedora)
>>>
>>>
>>> You guys do know, of course, that the latest versions (2.6 kernel) of
>>> Linux will render you Windows partition unbootable? This is well
>>> documented. Happened to me with Fedora C2.
>>
>>Hey that's funny, I've got XP, Fedora Core 2, and SUSE 9.1 (2.6 kernel)
>>all bootable on the same machine.

> It doesn't happen every time, but it's a fact it happens, when you
> first install Windows and then install Linux. It happened to me.

> From
> http://www.hut.fi/~tkarvine/linux-windows-dual-boot-resizing-ntfs.html
[...]
O.K., from a document referenced there:

Primer:
        There is a bug in Fedora Core 2 that causes the hard disk
  geometry as reported in the partition table to be altered during
  installation. This change may cause Windows boot failure. Although
  this bug is severe, it is recoverable and no data should be lost. It
  is important not to panic if and when this happens so you do not cause
  further problems or cause actual loss of data in the process of
  recovering from the error.

This is not a Linux or Kernel issue. This is a broken installer that
does the partitioning wrong. I never experienced this problem. I now
have a 2.6 kernel on all my systems. However I do all my partitioning
manually with Linux fdisk. I have heard that some of the fdisk
alternatives can cause this problem but was not interested enough to
investigate, since fdisk works well.

Arno 

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