[LBo] [Fwd: [fpqrp] Help fixing Win2k Boot Loader.....]

[tim]

tim wrote:
> Jisao wrote:
>> Anita Lewis wrote:
>>> On 01/02/2007 06:47 PM Sam Morgan wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Anyone have an answer for this gentleman?
>>>>
>>>> Okay, I need some help here.  I recently installed Debian to some 
>>>> spare
>>>> space on my main drive.  It made it's own partitions, and now the 
>>>> Win2k
>>>> bootloader can't find windows.  Windows is still on the same 
>>>> partition,
>>>> and I have made no changes in boot.ini.
>>>>
>>>> On my main drive, this is the partition info from fdisk:
>>>>
>>>> ===
>>>>
>>>> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
>>>> 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5169 cylinders
>>>> Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
>>>>
>>>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>>> /dev/hda1              69        3789    28130760    f  W95 Ext'd 
>>>> (LBA)
>>>> /dev/hda2   *        3790        5169    10432800   83  Linux
>>>> /dev/hda4               1          68      514048+   6  FAT16
>>>> /dev/hda5              69        3725    27646888+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>>>> /dev/hda6            3726        3789      483808+  82  Linux swap /
>>>> Solaris
>>>>     
>>>
>>>  
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> Just my 2 cents, but it looks to me like debian resized the windows 
>>>> partition, which placed it the end of the drive; most likely on the 
>>>> 2nd primary partition.  Everything else is now on the extended 
>>>> partition at the beginning of the drive.  Basically backwards from 
>>>> what I generally do, but I have done similar things and it worked.  
>>>> I rarely mess with windows anymore, but editing the boot.ini with 
>>>> the proper information might work.  Also, I wasn't able to 
>>>> determine if you are able to boot into debian.  Maybe a floppy boot 
>>>> loader like smart boot loader would get you going. 
Ok, I reread your info again, and windows appears to be on the only 
primary partition.  Which probably means nothing at this point.  I'm 
just surprised an install where the os is allowed to make partitioning 
decisions, would make this config.  Anyway, someone familiar with dual 
booting windows could probably tell you if boot.ini is counting like 
fdisk.  Or if it expects to find windows at partition 4 or 5.  Since it 
appears to now be the last partition on the disk.

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