I think Bryan explained all this at the meeting last night. In actual
fact, it is Windows that breaks computers by messing with the disk
geometry. Linux gets it right, but it gets it TOO right. The 2.6 kernel
is especially bad about this. The later versions of GRUB start writing
more stuff into the boot record of the disk, which screws with later
versions of Windows which puts NTFS meta data into these hidden areas.
Support for LDM is supposedly coming in later kernels, GRUB, fdisk and
parted. And in Longhorn.
What you are seeing I think, is Windows expecting an existing NTFS
volume (because of the extra 2.6 junk,) and reading it but getting
garbage. Hard to say, but probably.
Your solution was recommended at one point by Bryan, but ask him
specifically. He has his slides posted on discuss.
Ed
Robert Citek wrote:
I had a laptop on which Fedora Core 3 was installed. We then went to
put Windows XP on it. The Windows CD would start to boot, then the
screen would go blank and the machine would freeze. Knoppix would
boot just fine. Thinking we had a bad CD, we tried several different
Windows CDs. No luck. Thinking it might be the BIOS, we upgraded
the BIOS. No luck. What eventually worked was to remove all
partitions from the harddrive. Once we did that, the Windows CD
would boot and we were able to install just fine.
Conclusion 1: Linux breaks computers. ;)
Conclusion 2: Install Windows first and then Linux.
Regards,
- Robert
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