On 08/16/2009 05:00 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
My father has a dual-boot Vista/Fedora 11 machine, with Grub on the
MBR.
He recently enabled recommended updates in Vista, and it wanted him to
install SP2, but he was unable to. At Stage 3, after rebooting, it got
to 100% but then failed and reverted the changes. The associated error
number was 80004005. We found that the source of the problem was that
the active partition was the Fedora /boot partition, not the Windows
one. By using Vista's Disk Management tool to make the Vista partition
active again, the problem was solved. Grub doesn't seem to care which
partition is active (at least if it's on the MBR). Looking at old saved
fdisk output from 2 of my machines, I suspect that F11 changed the
active partition, and that in F10 and earlier, the Windows partition was
active. Is this new behavior in the F11 installer (to change the active
partition, even though Grub doesn't care), and if so, is it deliberate?
Sorry for the very late followup, but after clean installing F12, I see
that the F12 installer has again switched the active partition from the
Windows partition (/dev/sda1) back to the Linux /boot partition
(/dev/sda2). I'll have to switch it back again to avoid future problems
with Windows updates.
[root@compaq-pc ~]# man fdisk
Formatting page, please wait...
[root@compaq-pc ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x031a25b1
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 10444 83886080 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 10444 10469 204800 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 10469 30401 160103424 8e Linux LVM
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