won't dual boot: 2 disks and LVM

[michael]

On 18 Dec 2007, at 18:03, Felix Miata wrote:

> On 2007/12/18 15:10 (GMT) michael apparently typed:
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>> 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



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