still having problems making dual-boot

John Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Fri Feb 17 20:52:12 CET 2012


Sorry to keep bringing this up but I am still having problems making a 
dual-boot, debian/Win7 machine with FAI. I used to have a rather 
unconventional disk setup file so I got rid of it. I copied the FAI-BASE 
config file, increased the partition sizes, and configured it to preserve 
the 2 Win7 partitions. But I still end up needing to repair Win7 after the 
FAI install is done.  Below are my setup_storage config files, fdisk before 
the install, and fdisk after.

=== setup_storage ===
disk_config disk1 disklabel:msdos preserve_always:1,2 bootable:1
primary  /system           0-  ntfs  rw
primary  /windows          0-  ntfs  rw
primary /      5G      ext3  rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro
logical swap   1G-2G swap  rw
logical /var   5G-10G ext3  rw,noatime         createopts="-L var -m 5" 
tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
logical /tmp   1G-2G ext3  rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev createopts="-L tmp -m 0" 
tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"
logical /usr   20G-40G    ext3  rw,noatime,nodev   createopts="-L usr"
logical /home  100-50%  ext3  rw,noatime,nosuid,nodev createopts="-L home -m 
1" tuneopts="-c 0 -i 0"

=== fdisk before ===

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: 0x356da6af

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          26      204800    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              26        8381    67108864    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            8381       19452    88933376    6  FAT16

=== fdisk after ===

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: 0x0004fb11

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          26      204800    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              26        8381    67108864    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            8381        9032     5234852   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            9033       19452    83698650    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            9033        9230     1590403+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6            9231       10222     7968208+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7           10223       10420     1590403+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8           10421       14388    31872928+  83  Linux
/dev/sda9           14389       19452    40676548+  83  Linux



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