I have been struggling for a couple of days to create a dual boot system via
FAI. I now believe I'm doing something wrong with partitioning. The reason
for this is that I made a dual boot system by manually installing Windows 7
and then installing debian squeeze. I then saved the grub.cfg file from my
dual boot system and did a FAI install. Then I copied the grub.cfg back to
the dual boot system and Windows 7 would not boot. The ntfs partition is
there but when you try to boot from it, it gives an error message saying
something about it being unbootable because of a hardware change. If I
re-run update-grub, it sees the Windows 7 partition and creates a boot
stanza for it but it still won't boot. So I don't think the problem is with
grub.
While I seem to be successfully preserving the NTFS partition, I seem to be
making it unbootable for some reason. Below is a segment of the output from
fdisk before the FAI install. After that is the setup_storage config file...
So this is what fdisk showed after I installed debian squeeze normally ...
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5100 40960000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5100 9726 37161985 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 * 5100 9533 35605504 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9533 9726 1555456 82 Linux swap / Solaris
This is my setup_storage config file ...
# <type> <mountpoint> <size> <fs type> <mount options> <misc options>
disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1
primary /win 0- ntfs rw
primary / 2G-6G ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro
logical swap 500-2G swap rw
logical /var 5G-20G ext3 rw createopts="-m 5"
tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
logical /home 500-2G ext3 rw createopts="-m 0"
tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
logical /usr 12G-40G ext3 rw
logical /tmp 2G-50% ext3 rw,nosuid createopts="-m 1"
tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
