XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
From: [email protected]

Package: installation-reports

Hi,

I tried an 2.6 kernel install using the RC1 installer and encountered
the following problem.

I used the debian installer to create 3 logical partitions (/, /home and
swap) and installed grub as the boot-loader. During the grub install, it successfully picked up my windows partition and added that to the boot
menu.

When I rebooted however, grub failed to boot windows xp for me. In
particular, when I selected the windows xp option, grub proceeds until the point where it hands over control to the windows xp boot-loader (it seems
like, I'm not a windows expert) and it then hangs indefinitely.

I can see no documentation in debian (or reported problems) indicating any problems like this but I did come across this http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980 which seems to
have the same symptoms.

Some investigation reveals that there is a known problem with parted
altering the CHS values for LBA partitions. This problem seems to be fixed
in the latest release of parted - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2004-08/msg00046.html

The problem has occured on Fedora and is detailed here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113201

A workaround for the problem is to boot first with a distro such as
knoppix and use the fdisk from that to partition your system. I can
confirm that the problem does not occur if parted is not used to partition
your system.

-stephen

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