Package: installation-reports Hi,
I tried an 2.6 kernel install using the RC1 installer and encountered the following 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. Some investigation reveals that there is a known problem with parted altering the CHS values for LBA partitions. This problem seems to be fixed in the latest release of parted - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-08/msg00046.html The problem has occured on Fedora and is detailed here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113201 A workaround for the problem is to boot first with a distro such as knoppix and use the fdisk from that to partition your system. I can confirm that the problem does not occur if parted is not used to partition your system. -stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.skynet.ie/~stephen/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
