Re: OFF-TOPIC: Fedora 7 already installed, can't install XP on empty partition

Hi Aaron, thks for stepping in.

On 8/10/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 18:07 -0300, André Costa wrote:
Hi,

this is somehow off-topic, but hopefully someone here has been through
this already...

I just bought a shiny new Core 2 Duo machine (Intel DG33BU mobo), with
a nice 250G SATA disk. Fedora 7 installation went surprisingly well
(and fast), only problem was that onboard NIC was not recognized, but
upgrading the kernel offline fixed this. Everything is amazingly fast
=)

BUT... I need this machine to dual-boot to Windows XP (still addicted
to some Windows-only games =( ). XP setup CD hangs just after showing
"examining hardware configuration" or something like that. It doesn't
really hangs, it just switches to a blank screen and sits there
forever (I already left it there for more than 15min to no avail).
Keyboard is responsive and HD led stays on. CTRL+ALT+DEL reboots as
expected.

I talked to IT guys at work and they told me they've been through this
already lots of times, it seems XP is unable to properly recognize the
disk when only Linux is installed on it (?!?), and only solution would
be to reformat the whole thing and install XP first.

Is that true?

It is true that it is better to install XP first. I have had cases like
yours. Did you create a partition for XP? One can not tell from your
fdisk -l output. If not you are lost.

However, If there is such a partition. make it type 7 with fdisk. Then
retry your XP install.

I haven't created a partition for XP, but I just did that with gparted
on the empty partition, and marked it as HPFS/NTFS (type 7):

~ fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 10467 83971755 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda3 10468 30401 160119855 7 HPFS/NTFS

Still, nothing happens. ... stupid XP, I can't believe I'll have to
reinstall everything because of it =/

If that's really the case, what should I do? Reboot from Fedora
installation CD into rescue mode, run fdisk and remove all partitions?

Something just occurred to me: what if I managed to boot from a Linux
rescue CD, ran gparted and marked both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 as
"hidden" partitions? Could this work?

Regards,

Andre

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