[NTLUG:Discuss] kernel 2.6 -- install -- trashing Win partitions

[Jack Snodgrass]

I have a laptop with dual boot. I use grub as my boot loader. 
I started with:
GRUB 
   linux - redhat8 - ext2
   win2000 - C: - fat32

I re-installed Fedora FC2 and replaced/wiped out the RH8 
install. I formated the existing drives, but did not repartition.

I after the FC2 install, I how have:
GRUB 
   linux - FC2 - ext3
   win2000 - C: - fat32

win2k is still fine. Grub boots it just like it did before. 

I think that my install was ok, because I already had my drive 
setup and didn't change the partition table at all. I used the 
same linux drives for FC2 as RH8. 

So... if your already up and running and just want to upgrade/re-install
with existing drives, I think your ok... if you want to do a new install
or change your partition table... you may hose something up. 

This link is supposed to help un-hose... but I didn't need it...
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html


jack 


On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 09:53 -0600, pacificview505 at juno.com wrote:
> I will admit that after researching this on Net, I've not done so for
> about the last month.  I got one of the Novell install kits, and I'm
> toying with the idea again of installing Linux.  Since a HDD switch-out 3
> months ago, I have no Linux on.
> 
> Has anyone had any experience with the recent deal, IIRC coming from 2.6
> kernel, in which an install re-writes, or somesuch, the partition tables
> sometimes.  Result:  unbootable into Windoze in a dual-boot situation.
> 
> I don't have the URL right now, but I've seen articles to effect of
> re-running some Linux command to rewrite the partition table, or some
> file it modifies.  Is it really as simple as that?
> 
> This is_literally_keeping_me_from Linux now, after having run Linux for 6
> years.  The general tenor of the comments to one or two posts I've made,
> on non-NTLUG sites, was kind of snotty stuff to the effect of "what do
> you want to run Windoze for, anyway".  I am sympathetic to the thought,
> but I just cannot afford to lose_all_of_my_data_which is on FAT 32
> partitions.  Even with backups on other media, there would still be lost
> time rebuilding systems, etc.
> 
> Does anyone know if it only affects HDDs > 8.4, or 10, or somesuch, Gigs?
>  Thanks.
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