Hi Aaron, thks for stepping in.
On 8/10/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 18:07 -0300, André Costa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is somehow off-topic, but hopefully someone here has been through
> this already...
>
> I just bought a shiny new Core 2 Duo machine (Intel DG33BU mobo), with
> a nice 250G SATA disk. Fedora 7 installation went surprisingly well
> (and fast), only problem was that onboard NIC was not recognized, but
> upgrading the kernel offline fixed this. Everything is amazingly fast
> =)
>
> BUT... I need this machine to dual-boot to Windows XP (still addicted
> to some Windows-only games =( ). XP setup CD hangs just after showing
> "examining hardware configuration" or something like that. It doesn't
> really hangs, it just switches to a blank screen and sits there
> forever (I already left it there for more than 15min to no avail).
> Keyboard is responsive and HD led stays on. CTRL+ALT+DEL reboots as
> expected.
>
> I talked to IT guys at work and they told me they've been through this
> already lots of times, it seems XP is unable to properly recognize the
> disk when only Linux is installed on it (?!?), and only solution would
> be to reformat the whole thing and install XP first.
>
> Is that true?
It is true that it is better to install XP first. I have had cases like
yours. Did you create a partition for XP? One can not tell from your
fdisk -l output. If not you are lost.
However, If there is such a partition. make it type 7 with fdisk. Then
retry your XP install.
I haven't created a partition for XP, but I just did that with gparted
on the empty partition, and marked it as HPFS/NTFS (type 7):
~ fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 10467 83971755 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda3 10468 30401 160119855 7 HPFS/NTFS
Still, nothing happens. ... stupid XP, I can't believe I'll have to
reinstall everything because of it =/
If that's really the case, what should I do? Reboot from Fedora
installation CD into rescue mode, run fdisk and remove all partitions?
Something just occurred to me: what if I managed to boot from a Linux
rescue CD, ran gparted and marked both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 as
"hidden" partitions? Could this work?
Regards,
Andre