I don't know if it is related but about a year ago I had to replace my Dell 4100 hard drive. When that was done, the technician formated the disk for win2000. In a previously triple boot setup (dos, win2000, and Linux) I first installed the win2000, reduce the size and moved it to allow dos and a boot partition to use the first sectors on the hard drive. Then installed dos and last Linux. It had worked a couple of time before for me but not with this new disk. I discovered that Dell had installed a disk manager when they formatted the disk for win2000 that was not evident nor removable with Fdisk. I eventually had to remove it with a Dell provided scrip program, and the install would then work. Otherwise, I could only use win2000 even if I had installed Linux RH. Don't know if that helps. Norm On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 10:39, Chris Bice wrote: > 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 -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
