Maxim Vexler wrote: >Hello to everyone, > >I'm trying to achieve the most simple dual boot possible : Linux & >Windows on the same hd. >Trivial? I Think not! > >Here is my new 160GB hard drive scheme, after being dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 out. >hda1 ext2 >hda2 swap >hda3 reiserfs >hda4 extended >hda5 ext3 >hda6 fat32 >hda7 Linux (83) >hda8 Linux (83) >hda9 Linux (83) > >I started with installing xp. >It complained about the fact it's not on the first partition, so >during the installation I allowed it to delete hda1 (ext2) and make it >fat32, so that is can copy it's ntldr to there >The system (windows) itself got installed into hda5. >It finished, I even tried to boot it and it worked. > >Then I boot from gentoo liveCD, mounted hda1, hda5. >Copied all the files windows left on hda1 to hda5. >Reformatted hda1 as ext2 and did a normal gentoo setup when the boot >loader is grub. > >
Simply copying the files from hda1 to hda5 wouldn't possibly work, because those are block-mapped files whose position must be recorded in the first block of the partition for the boot loader. But the real problem is that I don't think you can boot windows from a logical partition...it must be on a primary partition. I would suggest trying again, with partitioning like so: hda1: /boot (ext2) hda2: Windows C: (fat32) hda3: Linux (83) (/) hda4: extended hda5: swap ... (and so on) You might also check out LVM, since then you would only need 3 partitions (/boot, C:, and an LVM volume). -Richard -- [email protected] mailing list
