[SATLUG] Problems dualbooting XP and SUSE

[Bryan Scott]

Does not sound like fun. I have been fixing my laptop since yesterday
about 7pm. I removed Debian, cause I did not like grub..... Well that
hosed the whole thing. In reading on the web I booted to the XP
install disk and ran several things from the Recovery console

fixmbr
fixboot

blah blah, well none of that worked. So booted the trusty rusty
Knoppix the cfdisk to reinit the partition (supposedly the fixmbr may
hose the partition) Basically just changed the partition from bootable
to non bootable then back again and wrote the partion. Then rebooted
XP install cd when to the install selected repair and it fixed the
disk problems, then and then ... Installed Fedora C2.... and all is
back to normal. Dual booting with FC2 and XP. I hope this helps, what
I think happened was I corrupted the boot process and Windows was
having no part of this so I ended up with the "Error loading operating
system" msg. Oh BTW you may need to copy ntldr and ntdetect.com over
to the "C:" Partition. and finally you may need to run bootcfg.

Here are some links that helped me out.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/r_c_cmds.htm
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20668158.html
http://www.techsupportforum.com/archive/index.php/t-9142.html
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_20931986.html

-Bryan

-Bryan

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:20:22 -0500, John Ziriax <ziriax at gmail.com> wrote:
> John,
> 
> Sadly, there was not really a fix for some of the computers. According
> to the theory we had at the time Grub changed the disk geometry table.
> There are instructions for fixing the table on the web, but they
> didn't work for the Sony desktop I was working on. From a brief review
> there's a lot on the web about this. I don't think that it is entirely
> limited to FC 2.
> 
> Here's this link we were following the afternoon. At least is did not
> damage on the Sony.
> http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/
> 
> Here's another link at RH.
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg02143.html
> 
> Another suggested setting the BIOS for the HD to LBA instead of auto.
> No joy for the Sony here either.
> 
> This links suggests a way to fix windows, but make sure you have a
> Linux boot disk.
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg01918.html
> 
> I'm wondering if this is an XP/Linux problem. Possibly intentional on
> the part of.....
> Am I getting paranoid?
> 
> Any how, I still have some reading to do. The bug didn't crop up in my
> install of RHEL with XP on my Inspiron 8600.
> 
> Does anybody have anything to add from their experiences? I hate
> seeing people at the installfest have such troubles and we did a
> number of very successful installs. Including one on a dual processor
> Dell with XP and FC 2!!! Go figure.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:47:57 -0500, john shanks <johnshanks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was at the SAC Installfest today, and I ended up putting SUSE 9 in
> > dualboot with XP using LILO.  Unfortunately, when I try to boot into
> > XP it hangs on the "Starting Windows" line and nothing happens after
> > that.  I know that there were similar problems with a lot of the
> > RedHat and Fedora installs you guys were doing and you found what the
> > problem was, but I had to leave at 12.
> >
> > Can you tell me what the fix was, and if its something I could do?
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