Partition Problem with Windows

Rainer Fleischhacker rainer at familie-fleischhacker.de
Thu Dec 29 19:43:41 CET 2005


Hi folks,
i want to setup my Workstation with WindowsXP on hda1 and the rest with linux. 
Fai had some trouble to setup the harddisk.

Can anybody help me? When i install the workststion without the Windows 
partition i have no problems Version with 2.8.4 and 2.9 .

# generic disk configuration for one small disk
# disk size from 500Mb up to what you can buy today
#
# <type> <mountpoint> <size in mb> [mount options]     [;extra options]

disk_config disk1
primary  /windows      preserve1        rw»··»·······»·······; writeable
primary  /             70-200      rw,errors=remount-ro ; -c -j ext3
logical  swap          40-500      rw···················
logical  /var          90-1000     rw                   ; -m 5  -j ext3
logical  /tmp          50-1000     rw                   ; -m 0 -j ext3
logical  /usr          200-4000    rw                   ; -j ext3
logical  /home         50-         rw,nosuid            ; -m 1 -j ext3
# logical /home        preserve9   rw,nosuid            ; -m 1 -j ext3



Using config file: /fai/disk_config/WINDOWS
Mapping disk name disk1 to hda
Creating partition table: LC_ALL=C sfdisk -q  /dev/hda 
< /tmp/fai/partition.hda

sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed.
(If you really want this, use the --force option.)

SFDISK ERROR:

Disk /dev/hda: 59554 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+  10152-  10153-   5116671    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
New situation:
Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id  System
/dev/hda1            63  10233404   10233342   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2   *  10234224  10557791     323568  83  Linux
/dev/hda3      10557792  60030431   49472640   5  Extended
/dev/hda4             0         -          0   0  Empty
/dev/hda5      10557855  11272463     714609  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6      11272527  12706847    1434321  83  Linux
/dev/hda7      12706911  14114015    1407105  83  Linux
/dev/hda8      14114079  19741679    5627601  83  Linux
/dev/hda9      19741743  60030431   40288689  83  Linux

setup_harddisks version 0.37fai
Probing disks:  /dev/hda
Disks found: hda

Using config file: /fai/disk_config/WINDOWS

My partition.hda is:
# partition table of device: /dev/hda
unit: sectors

/dev/hda1 : start=        63, size=  10233342, Id=  b
/dev/hda2 : start=  10234224, size=    323568, Id= 83, bootable
/dev/hda3 : start=  10557792, size=  49472640, Id=  5
/dev/hda4 : start=         0, size=         0, Id=  0
/dev/hda5 : start=  10557855, size=    714609, Id= 82
/dev/hda6 : start=  11272527, size=   1434321, Id= 83
/dev/hda7 : start=  12706911, size=   1407105, Id= 83
/dev/hda8 : start=  14114079, size=   5627601, Id= 83
/dev/hda9 : start=  19741743, size=  40288689, Id= 83

Mapping disk name disk1 to hda
Creating partition table: LC_ALL=C sfdisk -q  /dev/hda 
< /tmp/fai/partition.hda
cp: cannot stat `/tmp/fai/disk_var.sh': No such file or directory
setup_harddisks did not create /tmp/fai/disk_var.sh file.

My partition.hda is:




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