After installing Gentoo Windows CD don't work [SOLVED]

cauchy · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 24

Hi guys

I have very (VERY) strange problem. I did the following:

1. I installed Windows XP.
2. I installed Gentoo (amd64).
3. Everything was OK. Then my Win XP crashed (but this is another story).
4. Anyway I wanted to install a new one, but:

The windows installation CD doesn't work anymore! After command "checking hardware..." the screen goes black and nothing happens anymore.

This is not caused by my CD drive or CD. I have tried many of them.

I have found this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/295701.
So this is also problem of Gentoo?
The funny thing is that I havn't changed my partitions since 3 years, but yes, I use ext3.
The bad thing is that on my Windows I had NTFS so the solution from this URL doesn't work for me :/

Do anybody has enogh knowledge to help me?

cauchy

Kurt Steiner · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:44 am Post subject:

Have you tried other Windows cd's? - maybe this one is broken.
What about linux livecd's? Do they boot?

cauchy · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 24

Sure thing. I tested several of them. What is strange, that when I change disk in this machine, everything works fine. It must be something messed up with partition table.

VoVaN · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:01 am Post subject:

you should clean up mbr... I had the same problem a while ago, read http://linuxgazette.net/issue63/okopnik.html for details. Maybe you've the same issue.

cauchy · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 24

Thanks, but the result is that my data & linux will be lost. This is seriously not what I want, because my linux is fine - I don't want to loose him ;-)

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Btw. I have used lilo for several years and now just after move to grub sth with MBR broke up :/. Maybe I should deinstall grub and install lilo? What do you think?

syg00 · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject:

cauchy, can we see the results of a "fdisk -l" ????.

cauchy · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 24

Here you are:

raf · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 158

syg00 · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject:

Take the boot flag off the Linux partition - isn't needed or used.
The Windows boot-loader barfs if more than one is set - although it only checks the primary partitions (last time I looked). Would not be surprised to have the installer CD also check - and it will install to a logical, so *maybe* it checks everything.

Simple change - try and let us know.

cauchy · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 24

Thank you very much syg00! Now it works! :-)

It was so simple, but I would never think of it.