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Re: cannot boot XP after shrinking partition


From: Andrew Clausen
Subject: Re: cannot boot XP after shrinking partition
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:36:11 +1000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 08:24:34PM -0700, Alex Stovboun wrote:
> 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.

I'm a bit confused.  Windows works now?  Can you mount the Windows
partition from Linux now?

Cheers,
Andrew





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