--- Tom Duerbusch wrote:

When I boot XP, I can bring up Partition Magic up. However PM complains about an invalid boot sector and wants to fix it. I seem to recall reading that if PM is allowed to fix it, PM will not be able to boot Linux. There is something else you have to do first before PM is allowed to "fix" things.

I had a similar problem with XP in the primary partition and Mandrake 9.0 in one of the logical partitions, using lilo as bootloader. PM 7 compains about the boot sector because it does not support ext3 or any other journalized filesystems... if you let it fix the boot sector lilo won't be able to boot into linux anymore. However PM 8 does support ext3 fs, does not complain about the boot sector and lets you resize your partitons, including the linux ones (PM 7.0 wont let you do that even if you fix the boot sector); now I use PM 8 with XP in the primary, and SuSE 8.1 in one of the logical partitions, with grub as bootloader. I do not know if PM 8 supports other journalized fs (other than ext3). So my advice is... get Partiton Magic 8, or use another app... (ask one of the linux gurus about those "another app"s). __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

On Saturday 01 February 2003 22:04, Frits Wüthrich wrote:

I used PM8 a week ago to make place on my machine with WindowsXP for SuSE8.1. I used the whizard in PM8 to ad another OS, and then choose Linux as the OS to ad. It created a partition in ext2 for the linux installation, and another partition for the swap file. When I installed SuSE8.1, it changed from ext2 to reiserfs.

I use GRUB as the bootloader, so I can choose between WindowsXP and SuSE8.1. Works as a dream.

SuSE are now selling a bundled Partition Magic 8 with SuSE 8.1 Pro... Costs more than the ordinary pro though. I was most upset though because I'd just bought PM8 myself when I got my Laptop and SuSE 8.1. Had I known, I could have saved some money... And that upsets me, wasting money... :( Paul Cooke ps, don't use the Bootmagic program that comes with PM8... It's useless compared to using Grub and wastes a primary partition as well. You only get four primary partitions per disk anyway... Makes life difficult if you want to have separate "/" and "/home" partitions as well as have XP and an OEM restore partition.

Frits

On Saturday 01 February 2003 21:39, Marino Fernandez wrote:

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--- Tom Duerbusch wrote:

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When I boot XP, I can bring up Partition Magic up. However PM complains about an invalid boot sector and wants to fix it. I seem to recall reading that if PM is allowed to fix it, PM will not be able to boot Linux. There is something else you have to do first before PM is allowed to "fix" things.

I had a similar problem with XP in the primary partition and Mandrake 9.0 in one of the logical partitions, using lilo as bootloader. PM 7 compains about the boot sector because it does not support ext3 or any other journalized filesystems... if you let it fix the boot sector lilo won't be able to boot into linux anymore.

However PM 8 does support ext3 fs, does not complain about the boot sector and lets you resize your partitons, including the linux ones (PM 7.0 wont let you do that even if you fix the boot sector); now I use PM 8 with XP in the primary, and SuSE 8.1 in one of the logical partitions, with grub as bootloader. I do not know if PM 8 supports other journalized fs (other than ext3).

So my advice is... get Partiton Magic 8, or use another app... (ask one of the linux gurus about those "another app"s).

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PM 8.0 did the job. Thanks to all Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Marino Fernandez wrote:

--- Tom Duerbusch wrote:

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When I boot XP, I can bring up Partition Magic up. However PM complains about an invalid boot sector and wants to fix it. I seem to recall reading that if PM is allowed to fix it, PM will not be able to boot Linux. There is something else you have to do first before PM is allowed to "fix" things.

I had a similar problem with XP in the primary partition and Mandrake 9.0 in one of the logical partitions, using lilo as bootloader. PM 7 compains about the boot sector because it does not support ext3 or any other journalized filesystems... if you let it fix the boot sector lilo won't be able to boot into linux anymore.

However PM 8 does support ext3 fs, does not complain about the boot sector and lets you resize your partitons, including the linux ones (PM 7.0 wont let you do that even if you fix the boot sector); now I use PM 8 with XP in the primary, and SuSE 8.1 in one of the logical partitions, with grub as bootloader. I do not know if PM 8 supports other journalized fs (other than ext3).

So my advice is... get Partiton Magic 8, or use another app... (ask one of the linux gurus about those "another app"s).

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