I'm pretty sure I'm buggered this time around, but maybe someone here can help
me spot my error for next time:
Situation: Needed Windows on my computer to run some commercial games with my
family; Cedega isn't cutting it. So fine; my 3-year-old Linux only system is
going to be dual-boot *melodramatic sigh*. I reinstall the old 20GB HD as the
Master, set the 40GB as slave, and plot this out:
1) Install Windows2000 on the 20GB HD (hda), leaving a 250MB partition
*before* it for /boot to eventually go onto. Windows apparently formats this
as C and installs Windows on the D: partition immediately after it. So far so
good, except that my motherboard drivers try to auto-install onto C:. Don't
need 'em...
2) Immediately install Mandrake 10.0 again onto the 40GB HD (hdb), but
put /boot on that first small partition of hda (formatted ext3).
2.1) I partitioned off a FAT32 /gaming/ chunk on the second half of hda, and
linux's /tmp on the end of hda. hdb consists of / and /home and swap. All's
running according to expectations, which means the system now recognizes
Linux and doesn't even realize Windows is there anymore.
At this point two exciting things make themselves known:
a) The 512 bytes of ntbootloader on "C:" or /boot have been reformatted and
overwritten, and Do Not Exist anymore. Oops.
b) Fo whatever reason, my floppy drive doesn't work, which makes creating a
bootdisk for *either* OS at this point really exciting... it is running and
running and running, like it's always mounted. This may be related to it
having its power cord unhooked when I installed the OS'es, but you'd think it
would have fixed that oversight after a reboot (post power-cord being plugged
back in, of course).
So my question is, how badly have I screwed up? Assuming I *can* get a
bootdisk to run on Linux, is it possible to do a Windows rescue, overwrite
that first section with FAT32 again, then copy/edit the /boot sector over it?
Can your /boot sector for linux even *be* in FAT32?? According to my
partition table, it still thinks that C: is the "active" partition for boot
purposes, but somehow linux believes "D:" to be an extended/logical
partition? How did that occur, when "D:" is now the 'oldest' partition on
either drive?? partition tables are below if you're morbidly curious....
I apologize if this sounds stupid, I'm just working on my 3rd day of wrestling
with this thing, and I'm willing to reinstall if that's what it takes, but I
don't want to screw it up another time (this'll be my 4th & 5th OS install in
10 days)...
Thanks,
David
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