Re: cannot boot XP after shrinking partition

[Alex Stovboun]

--- Andrew Clausen <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 01:56:28PM -0700, Alex
> Stovboun wrote:
> > > Ouch.  What does Parted's check command say?
> > > 
> > > What did you type to resize the partition?  Was
> the
> > > partition mounted?
> > > (Hopefully Parted doesn't have any problems left
> > > checking this...)
> > 
> > I guess the problem is not in parted but in Fedora
> > core 2, which corrupts partition table
> >
>
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980).
> > Sorry for confusion.
> 
> Fedora uses libparted to do all its partition table
> stuff.
> Your symptoms are not consistent with the bug you
> pasted.
> 
> Also, at no stage did it corrupt the partition table
> in the sense of
> data getting lost.  (It corrupted "boot features",
> if you want to
> look at it that way).  In your case, you can't mount
> the FAT partition
> in Linux.  This is a different and worse problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
> 
> 

After trying to install FC2 for the first time (I
haven't gone past partitioning by Druid),
boot record on Windows partition became wrong - heads
and sectors/track were set to 0. After I set them to
correct values, Windows could be booted again, and the
partition could be mounted from Linux.
The second time I actually had installed FC2, I could
not boot Windows again - and this time boot record was
ok. The problem was solved by switching disk access
from Auto to LBA in BIOS. However, in FC2 parted
complains that partitions are not lined up properly...
It does not complain in RH9.
--alex


                
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