On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 14:28 +0000, michael wrote: > I'm looking for a solution for (re-)installing WinXP on my slave disk > when I have Fedora and LVM on the master disk. In the past I've opened > up the box and unplugged the Fedora/LVM disk in order for WinXP to > install okay. But this seems much too drastic. Even swapping disk order > (in BIOS) doesn't help - WinXP installation sits there "forever" when > checking current config. > > Whilst I cannot find any definite reference stating "MS WinXP cannot > handle LVM" it does seem to be the culprit. > > Anybody got any such definitive references or other help? Do the "remove the Linux disk and move he XP disk" technique you mentioned to install WinXP onto what it believes will be the primary disk.... then... Then switch things to put the Linux drive back as the primary and the WinXP as the secondary. You can try something like this inside of grub. Notice the map commands in particular. title WinXP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 Let us know if this works for you. _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
