Further investigation suggests this may be a known parted problem which may be fixed by the latest release of parted - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-08/msg00046.html
More details on the problem as seen on fedora is available here - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113201#c13 Should http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254502 be upgraded to critical to track this or should I submit a separate bug report to allow verification that this is the same problem? An intermediate work-around might be to not install using a 2.6 kernel (maybe one for the debian installer release notes?). -stephen On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Stephen Mulcahy [sysadm] wrote: > Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:05:07 +0100 (IST) > From: "Stephen Mulcahy [sysadm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RC1 Installer causes problems for windows xp dual boot > > > Hi, > > I tried an 2.6 kernel install using the RC1 installer and encountered some > problems. I'll document the minor problems later on. I encountered one > major problem. > > I used the debian installer to create 3 logical partitions (/, /home and > swap) and installed grub as the boot-loader. During the grub install, it > successfully picked up my windows partition and added that to the boot > menu. > > When I rebooted however, grub failed to boot windows xp for me. In > particular, when I selected the windows xp option, grub proceeds until the > point where it hands over control to the windows xp boot-loader (it seems > like, I'm not a windows expert) and it then hangs indefinitely. > > I can see no documentation in debian (or reported problems) indicating any > problems like this but I did come across this > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980 which seems to > have the same symptoms. > > Would the RC1 install using a 2.6 kernel make any changes to the partition > table? If so, I think we need to sort this before release. In my time > installing and using Debian, I've never had it hose a windows install like > this. > > For reference, I've tried the following to revive my windows install, all > to no avail. > > 1. booted up to windows recovery console and ran combinations of fixmbr, > fixboot and bootcfg. No change. > 2. Reset the mbr using ms-sys (debian package) and reinstalled windows in > repair mode. > 3. Reset the mbr using ms-sys and did a complete reinstall of windows > (without formatting the disk first). > > The only thing I haven't tried is a format and reinstall of windows - > before I do that I want to know if there is any information I can provide > (fdisk -l output etc.) that would be useful before I do a reinstall? > > Thanks to everyone for their great work on the installer. I'd like to help > to get this particular problem sorted before the release of Sarge but I'd > also like to get my system up and running again so if anyone does need > anything, please advise by this evening. > > Thanks, > > -stephen > > -- --- Duke on computers and windows: "One way to get out of a problem is ignore it!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
