Problem partitioning dual-boot
John G. Heim
jheim at math.wisc.edu
Wed Sep 7 22:54:07 CEST 2011
All,
I am having a problem partitioning a disk for dual boot, debian/Win7.
Because I'm blind, I'm installing Win7 via an autounattend.xml file. It is
set up to create a 40Gb partition as the first partition and to install Win
7 to it. If I do a normal debian install to partition 2, I get a dual-boot
machine. But if I do an FAI install, my Win 7 partition is unbootable. I
posted about this a few weeks ago and was asked to post my FAI setup_storage
config, and a fdisk screenshot before and after doing the FAI install. Here
they all are:
storage_setup
==========
disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1
primary /windows 0- ntfs rw
logical swap 1500M swap rw
logical / 30G- ext3 rw createopts="-m 5" tuneopts="-c 0 -i
0"
=====
fdisk before FAI install
===========
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc19e4136
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5100 40960000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5100 19452 115287040 7 HPFS/NTFS
===========
fdisk after FAI install
============
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00084c0c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5100 40960000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5100 19452 115287166 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 5100 5290 1530869+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 5291 19452 113756233+ 83 Linux
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