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Fedora Core 4 Partitioning problems

  • 02-09-2005 9:17am
    #1
    sicruise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 378 ✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    I need some help here because i spent 5 hours last night installing/re-installing/ getting very annoyed with Druid.


    Ok here is what I had on my system

    I have 2 hdd's, 1 primary master drive which is solely windows xp home, the boot partition for both drives is contained at the beginning of this drive.

    1 primary slave drive which contains windows xp pro. Using the boot sector on hdd 1 I can boot to this drive.


    Here's what I did

    I created a new partition on hdd2 using partition magic... this worked fine. So I had a 30g partition for my linux install.

    Then I installed fedora on this partition creating the boot loader on hdd1... this was stupid because there is no unpartitioned space on this drive so it obviously didn't work.

    Next I put hdd2 as master and hdd1 as slave. Installed fedora again and this time putting boot loader on hdd2. No I can boot fedora but can't see windows, if i boot to slave drive i can see windows and i don't expect windows to see fedora.

    Not being happy with this setup i went back to original config. I installed fedora on hdd2 and boot loader again on hdd2... keep in mind this is slave drive. Windows now boots as normal. But when I boot to slave drive fedora starts to load but then stalls. I will try and get the exact error later that pops up... but has anyone set up a similar config?

    btw... There was about 5/6 stupid mistakes inbetween all this... i'm nearly at the stage of giving up.


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