[ltp] R40 - problems with double boot

Hartmut Meyer linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 20 May 2004 09:33:07 +0200


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Hi,

On Thursday 20 May 2004 05:04, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:04 am, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 May 2004, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
> > > Would using FAT32 instead of NTFS sidestep this problem?
> >
> > No, the problem is filesystem independent. For example since Fedora use=
rs
> > don't have NTFS support at all, they blamed GRUB -- also incorrectly,
> > AFAIK. So it do happen also with FAT32. No need to resize or anything,
> > just modifying the partition table on 2.6 kernels (apparently by parted
> > or libparted based partitioning tool) can make Windows unbootable. E.g.
> > if you create a root and swap partition on an unallocated space.
> >
> > Please note, this bootability problem doesn't happen on all computers b=
ut
> > only some percent of them.
>
> Ouch! Can you opt to use a 2.4 kernel under SuSE?

You can: use version 9.0 of the distribution. 9.1 does depend on kernel 2.6=
=20
and replacing that by a 2.4 kernel would require more changes in other part=
s=20
of the distribution.


Greetings from Bremen
hartmut

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