There is a quick fix to this. Flatten your Hard Drive, Install the windows 2K first, but make sure you leave enough unpartitioned space for a linux install. Then once you have installed 2k, pop in the linux disks, make sure to use GRUB and I can almost promise you that it will work perfect. Chris On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 10:28, Aaron Konstam wrote: > I will describe the problem but first a question. We know that the first > sector on the first disk is the MBR is found a boot loader and the > partition table. One assumes that that the OS starts in cylinder 1. What > is stored in the rest of the cylinder 0 other than the MBR? > > Now the problem. We install Linux and W2k on a Dell machine. The Linux > runs. Now we boot the W2k. W2k has a disk manager program which allows > you to see what W2k thinks about the structure of the disk, When the > program is run it tells us that the Linux partition is Fat 32. We reboot > the machine and find that the Linux is ruined. In will not boot and the > disk seems to be written over by W2K. > > Now we have done this about several 100 times over the years and this has > not happened before. Nor does it happen on other machines. > > Can someone suggest where to look for an answer? Can anyone confirm an > impression that w2k keep a separate partition table that it uses, and if > so where is it located? > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > 715 Stadium Dr. > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > email:akonstam@trinity.edu > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
