On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 02:06 +0000, Dave Bolt IT Solutions wrote:
Well, I can't help much with the repair at this point, but I
wander why you
moved the XP partition.
As I said elsewhere, I did it without thinking, from the days when /boot
needed to be in the first 1024 cylinders on the disk. The WinXP
partition is pretty big.
When I first installed Fedora (core 8), I first installed XP since
Microsoft
don't like to share with other OS's, into a partition at the beginning of
the first drive, leaving a second partition to be used mostly for storage. I
then installed Fedora (in my case on a second drive), and used the Fedora
installar's recomendations of where to put it's boot sector and whatever
else, and it just took care of the details.
Now, in your case, XP has been installed as the first partition on the
drive, then moved. Unfortunately, I think you will find that if you do get
XP to boot, it will still think it is on the first partition, so will not
run very well, if at all.
Reinstalling over XP may fix this without loosing most of the install,
although I think wiping and starting again will actually take less time.
(The repair install tends to check each file that is already on the drive,
instead of just writing new files, as far as I can tell).
I'm thinking of jiggering the partitions to put WinXP first again
and /boot second. I know how to fix the Linux side when I do that, so
maybe putting WinXP back will help. I'd rather not re-install because I
installed a bunch of stuff on Win before I did this, so it would be
annoying (not to say awful) to have to do that all over again.
Regards
Dave
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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