won't dual boot: 2 disks and LVM

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On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:02 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2007/12/18 19:21 (GMT) michael apparently typed:
> 
> > On 18 Dec 2007, at 18:03, Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >> On 2007/12/18 15:10 (GMT) michael apparently typed:
> 
> >>> I'm looking for a solution for (re-)installing WinXP on my slave disk
> >>> when I have Fedora and LVM on the master disk. In the past I've opened
> >>> up the box and unplugged the Fedora/LVM disk in order for WinXP to
> >>> install okay. But this seems much too drastic. Even swapping disk order
> >>> (in BIOS) doesn't help - WinXP installation sits there "forever" when
> >>> checking current config.
> 
> >>> Whilst I cannot find any definite reference stating "MS WinXP cannot
> >>> handle LVM" it does seem to be the culprit.
> 
> >>> Anybody got any such definitive references or other help?
> 
> >> It might help us help you to see the output of fdisk -l for each disk.
> 
> > mkb at veri:~$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda
> > Password:
> 
> > Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 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       60801   488279610   8e  Linux LVM
> 
> > mkb at veri:~$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb
> 
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> >     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdb1   *           1        1305    10482381    7  HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/sdb2            1306       91201   722089620   83  Linux
> 
> I don't know all the details, but if your XP installation disk doesn't
> include SP1 or above, you're in some kind of trouble. Your disks both require
> LBA48 for access, which XP didn't have until SP1. Even though your NTFS
> partition is below that requirement, its installer may be hanging on the
> whole disk size. LBA48 is required for disks larger than 137GB/128GiB.

Not sure where the LBA stuff comes in but it's a WinXP inc SP2 disk.