Partition confusion

[Robert Todd]

I would suggest getting an additional HD just for Linux.

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: owner-nflug at nflug.org on behalf of Michael Brown 
	Sent: Fri 11/7/2003 12:02 AM 
	To: nflug at nflug.org 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Partition confusion
	
	

	Greetings All,
	
	I recently installed a new 200GB hard drive in my PC. Previously, I had
	2 40GB drives. One partitioned for Windows ME and one partitioned for
	Linux (Mandrake/Redhat, whatever the flavor of the week happened to be).
	This dual boot system worked great.
	
	The problem now is I can't seem to get the dual boot to work correctly
	with a single hard drive.
	
	I have tried several different ways to partition the new drive. I have
	been able to install windows and get it setup fine. Then I setup Linux
	and all goes well until I have to reboot into windows. Currently,
	windows reports an registry error and does not boot not even in safe
	mode. Previously, I booted to the startup disk and ran scanreg then it
	reports several missing files and instructs me to reinstall windows.
	
	I posted the output of fdisk /dev/hde below:
	
	   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
	/dev/hde1   *         1       608   4883728+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA) C:
	/dev/hde2           609      2432  14651280    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA) D:
	/dev/hde3          2433      7722  42491925   85  Linux extended
	/dev/hde4          7723     24321 133331467+  83  Linux /archive
	/dev/hde5          2433      2675   1951866   83  Linux /
	/dev/hde6          2676      2736    489951   82  Linux swap
	/dev/hde7          2737      3952   9767488+  83  Linux /usr
	/dev/hde8          3953      5168   9767488+  83  Linux /var
	/dev/hde9          5169      7600  19535008+  83  Linux /home
	/dev/hde10         7601      7722    979933+  83  Linux /tmp
	
	I did use cfdisk to setup this partition scheme. I also ran the command
	dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 on hde1 and hde2 per man
	fdisk. cfdisk originally setup hde3 as type f (win95 ext'd) which caused
	windows to "see" a third partition. But, I was able to boot back and
	forth to Linux and windows until fsck complained of errors on hde4 and
	they were too numerous to repair so I formated the partition again (it
	was blank). Then windows could not boot.
	
	Changing hde3 to type 85 (Linux extended) cured the ghost partition
	under windows after reformatting C: again.
	
	I should also note that during the current Mandrake 9.2 install lilo
	found 2 windows installations. I did delete the windows2 option. But now
	while Mandrake boots fine windows does not.
	
	Is this a partitioning issue or perhaps do I need to switch the bootable
	flag from hde1 to hde5?
	
	I am hoping there is a simple solution without the need to repartition,
	format, reinstall, etc. (again!) But, if I must, I will as long as I
	know how to get it right this time.
	
	Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
	
	Michael Brown
	
	

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