Dual Boot of Fedora/XP Installation

Richard Heldmann rheldmann at patmedia.net
Thu Sep 2 00:05:32 UTC 2004


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
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

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?
Thanks,

Richard





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