The 03.08.01 at 13:34, Fred M. Sloniker wrote:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 395 3172806 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 * 396 1757 10940265 5 Extended
I think windows might complaint here: partition 1 should be marked as bootable, not 2 - unless grub changes it when you boot into windows, because it can do it.
However, Windows's fdisk (I booted into command-prompt-only mode) told me that there was only one logical partition on drive D, named with a bizarre series of symbols and 10 gigs in size. I was careful not to touch anything there,
That might be because windows would like partition number two to be of type 'f', Win95 Ext'd (LBA). Just and idea.
not wanting to screw things up, but it looks like Windows isn't reading the partition table correctly or something...
If I could do it from scratch, I would partition from windows, using it's own fdisk, to make it happy. Later, I would make the needed linux partitions, adding the extra dos/windows partition. Otherwise... I'm not so sure. An idea... Is the 'dos compatibility flag' set or unset (linux's fdisk)? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson