won't dual boot: 2 disks and LVM

cs cs at networkingnewsletter.org.uk
Wed Dec 19 09:56:25 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:56 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> 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.
> : 
> : This might be of some use understanding:
> : http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/install-doz-after
> 
> This link appears to be dead.

it needs the '.html' suffix






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