On 5 Dec 2002, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 01:58, Aaron Konstam wrote: > [snip] > > 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? > I can confirm the opposite behaviour! I've dual boot linux & windows on > win98, winnt, win2k & winxp, and never seen this happen. I've seen that W2K disk manager screw the partition table frequently. I've reinstalled W2K several times. I have Grub installed on my /boot partition, and the W2K install resets the active partition. Attempting to use the W2K disk manager to set the active partition back to /boot hoses the partition table every time. My solution is to book into Linux rescue mode after the W2K installation completes and run fdisk to reset the active partition. I try to stay as far from the W2K disk manager as I can. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@clemson.edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
