Hi John, > 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.
My first question is: Can you confirm that Windows 7 still boots after doing this manual install? That is, it does boot with the fdisk output you appended to your email? > 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. > I'm not sure whether this is possible for you, but would you be able to send the exact error message that Windows produces? > 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... > [...] Could you also send the fdisk output *after* running the FAI install? Your setup-storage configuration looks perfectly fine, and preserving the first partition should mean it's really not affected... Thanks a lot, Michael
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