Dual Boot of Fedora/XP Installation

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 02.09.2004 schrieb Richard Heldmann um 2:05:

Please don't reply to other list mails when you want to start with a new
subject. You "hijacked" the thread with subject "lpd - printing".

> II have a Dell 8300 with a 120Gb SATA Seagate drive.  I set my Dell 8300's 
> bios to UDMA off, and tried to install FC2 at the boot prompt I entered:
> boot: linux sda=14589,255,63

This "sda=14589,255,63" instruction is bogus and does nothing. Because
you don't have a SCSI hard drive.

> The install went well.
> Feeling paranoid, I booted my Knoppix Cd, and I did a sfdisk -d /dev/hda | 
> sfdisk --no-read -H255 /dev/hda
> 
> I am afraid I screwed up the partition table.  How can I check it? From the 
> Knoppix CD I get:
> root at ttyp0[~]# sfdisk -d /dev/hda
> # partition table of /dev/hda
> unit: sectors
> 
> /dev/hda1 : start=       63, size=    80262, Id=16
> /dev/hda2 : start=    80325, size=193326210, Id= 7, bootable
> /dev/hda3 : start=193406535, size=   208845, Id=83
> /dev/hda4 : start=193615380, size= 40756905, Id= f
> /dev/hda5 : start=193615443, size= 38668392, Id=83
> /dev/hda6 : start=232283898, size=  2088387, Id=82

sfdisk does not show problems, why do you think anything is screwed up?

> I intended to give linux 20Gb and the balance to XP.  Fedora split the 20Gb 
> into 4 separate partitions.  Does this look okay?  How can I check or fix it?

So /dev/hda3 will be /boot, /dev/hda5 / and /dev/hda6 is swap space.

What do you want to fix? What is worrying you?

> Richard

Alexander


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