Re: Creating linux and windows partions in the same disk

Hello,

Rafael Almeida wrote:

2. I then ran
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=512
it deleted my partition table and the windows installer started up
fine.

3. I quit the windows installation.

Possibly leaving the MBR code in the first sector zeroed. Which possibly
is not your problem now, but will be the next. I'm not sure Windows
wrote some real boot code into it, Win 95/98 used to, but not later
ones. The disk might be in a state that yo cannot boot from it. You can
either install a default boot code into the mbr with a windows console
(fdisk /mbr AFAIR) or you have to boot a Linux and install MBR code
with lilo or grub.


5. Windows installer locked up at the same point as before.

I've recently deleted all the logical partitions using cfdisk. That
made the windows instaler to start just fine. So it seems to me that
the windows xp installer has some kind of problem with extended linux
partition. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way around this,
whitout losing all my linux partitions, of course.

There are other partition types for extended partitions in large drives,
I think it is in the range 0xb to 0xf. I think fdisk and cfdisk can
display types and their meaning. Something like "Extended LBA". I had
to use this at times on dual-boot systems.

Bernd Strieder



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