On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:02 -0600, Chris Cox wrote: > 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. It doesn't! This is exactly what I tried and it just hangs... _______________________________________________ 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/
