Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 11:44 -0400 schrieb Paul Griffith: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:48:24 -0400, Mario Gzuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, den 23.08.2007, 14:19 +0200 schrieb Juan Jose Pablos: > >> Mario Gzuk escribió: > >> > Am Mittwoch, den 22.08.2007, 20:06 +0200 schrieb Juan Jose Pablos: > >> >> any thoughts? > >> > > >> > Hi, > >> > what is the output of the edd-module? This should be a message during > >> > the boot process which tells you the number of the sektors/heads from > >> > your hard disk. > >> both cases (1.6.22 and 1.8.8) are giving the same information: > >> > >> 255 heads and 63 sectors > > > > Just take a look into the fat partition if there is the same count for > > the heads in byte 27/28. You can do that in the following way: > > > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/tmp/heads.bb bs=1 skip=26 count=2 > > hexdump -C /tmp/heads.bb > > > > If the ntldr is realy in the fat partition then it might be that the > > boot code from the fatpartition get an other head-count for that.... > > So maybe you can provide more information about the system? > > * Chipset (lspci -vvv might be helpful) > > * Harddisk (Type sata/ide/scsi?) > > * Biossettings if this is a sata system > > > > It is also possible that the edd module returns after the first time 255 > > heads and after crating the partitions (reboot again into the linux-env) > > another value.... We had this a long time ago, but I cant remember the > > systems... > > > > greetz mario > > > > Hi, > > Sorry to jump into the middle of this, but what happens if you manually > create a partition starting at 1 and ending at 4GB > > mkpart primary fat32 1 4GB > > Paul
Hi, you got an fat32 partition without the boot code. The boot code will be placed by the windows installer... greetings mario ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
