OFF-TOPIC: Fedora 7 already installed, can't install XP on empty partition
André Costa
blueser at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 22:56:13 UTC 2007
Hi Rick,
On 8/10/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 19:03 -0300, André Costa wrote:
> > Hi Aaron, thks for stepping in.
> >
> > On 8/10/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at 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?
>
> All versions of Windows (except perhaps Vista...haven't tried it) think
> they they own the entire system. If there's any non-Microsoft
> filesystem on the disk, the installer stalls. You have to purge the
> disk and install Windows first. When you install Windows, only give
> it as much disk as you want...make sure the rest is "unused space".
>
> NOW you can install Fedora. Anaconda will see the Windows stuff and
> add it to the grub configuration allowing you to multiboot.
Sounds pretty much like MS usual way of handling things, right? ;-)
Thks for the info, it really looks like I'll need to redo the whole
thing, starting with XP this time -- unless my "partition hiding" move
described on a previous message works... fingers crossed ;-)
Regards,
Andre
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