For reasons that involve much profanity, I have never been able to partition a drive with a Linux partition in place (unformated) and then install M$ on the reserved partition. I have always had to make a winders partition, leave the rest of the drive unpartitioned, install blunders, _then_ do the Linux work and partition the remaining drive portion. Otherwise it seems the blunders install hoses the drive partitioning even outside the winows space. I suspect the UUID key crap it writes to prevent moving drives from machine to machine but have not really looked into it.<br>
<br>I have seen "boundary errors" with windows stuff before. It expects to be the only thing on the drive so it can't end except on a cylinder boundary. You will need to get real cylinder counts and block sizes and determine how many blocks in a cylinder and set partitions to end on a cylinder edge. Windows just won't work right otherwise.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Andrew Grieser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agrieser@gmail.com">agrieser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey all,<br>
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I decided to wipe my drive and re-partition so that I can boot multiple operating systems, however I am having a difficult time getting it to work. The funny thing is, I have done this before and have gotten it working with no problems. I'm a bit confused as to why I can't figure this one out.<br>
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The drive is an 80GB IDE drive, and I want it partitioned as follows (In order from the beginning of the drive):<br>
5.5 GB NTFS<br>
70.0 GB Extended<br>
17 GB Logical EXT3<br>
17 GB Logical EXT3<br>
17 GB Logical EXT3<br>
17 GB Logical EXT3<br>
2.0 GB Logical SWAP<br>
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I'm pretty sure that this is exactly as I had done it in the past, the problem is that it won't work.<br>
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Here's what happened: I repartitioned using the gparted live cd (which seemed to go fine) and went to install windows, however the windows disk would not boot. I googled it and found this was a problem related to partition setup. I booted "system rescue cd" and ran testdisk, which listed the partitions, but complained about bad cylinder/head count (16 vs 255 or something similar) on all the partitions.<br>
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I went ahead and installed ubuntu on one of the 17 GB EXT3 partitions, and installed grub on the same partition as root. I was going to use "gag" as a bootloader to boot multiple operating systems. Doing it this lets each operating system maintain it's own grub configuration. This is how I have done it in the past, and have never had issues.<br>
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The Ubuntu install appeared to work fine, so I went ahead and installed gag (bootloader). This is when I ran into problems. The bootloader only lists two EXT3 partitions, and I can't boot to either of them. It should be listing 4.<br>
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After playing around a bit, I used testdisk to erase the partition table, then zeroed the drive, and repartitioned it from scratch. However, I have the same issue.<br>
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I thought maybe the drive was going bad, so I grabbed another drive...only to have the same issue. I've tried repartitioning on the Ubuntu live cd, and again, I have the same issue. I've even tried leaving out the NTFS partition, but again I get the same result.<br>
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Does anyone know how to fix this? Is there a better way to do this?<br>
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In the mean time I've installed Ubuntu using the automatic "erase drive and install ubuntu" option, and it's working fine.<br>
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Andrew<br>
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