Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:28:16 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.x partition breakage and dual booting |
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On Mon, 31 May 2004 20:08:21 +0200 Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com> wrote:
> > This is really very simple. If you move a disk from a machine with a > > different BIOS and you preserve the partition table geometry, you will > > NEVER be able to install Windows on the drive. If you partition a > > blank drive and use the wrong geometry, you will NEVER be able to > > install Windows on the drive. > > I don't quite believe this. AFAICT the Windows 2000/XP install program will > succeed no matter what, the only problem is with getting the dirty thing to > boot AFTER install has completed. If it craps out, boot off the install > CD to the repair console prompt, run fixboot/fixmbr and all should be swell. > If you need dual boot, you can go ahead and reinstall lilo/grub at this point. > The one scenario unfixable without a hex editor that I know of is installing > Windows on a partition that was created using mkdosfs -F 32 (and even that > will sometimes work)
Having suffered through this "Daddy, why did you break the computer?". I can say that fixboot/fixmbr will not work.
What did work on my machine was changing the BIOS setting on the boot disk from "Auto" to "Large disk". As I remember there were several possible settings and it took trying all of them till one worked. Still not sure why it worked though.
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