Dear Frans, - Which file system did you use for XP? NTFS or VFAT? NTFS
- How did you install XP? To the whole disk or to a smaller partition? I started by installing windows XP. While running XP installation, I deleted everything from the HDD, I then created a 25G partition and left a 15G empty space on the disc. Windows XP was then installed on the 25Gig partition. - If you used the whole disk, how did you resize the partition to make room for Debian? No need to, there was already empty space provisioned for Debian. - How did you set up the partitions to be used by Debian? A single EXT3 partition for / and a 1Gig /swap partition. - Can you reproduce the problem? YES, I can reproduce it every time. And If I use my SARGE disc, I wont get the BLUE screen of death. Its got to be the Etch install. I tried three times using Etch NetInstall Beta 3 and the result was the same. Blue screen of death. Regards, Bobby -----Original Message----- From: Frans Pop [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 28 October 2006 7:36 AM To: Bobby Jafari; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#394963: installation: Problems with dual booting Dell D600 with winXP pro in the first partition (hd0, 0). After installing the Dell Etch Beta 3, Windows fails to boot and I get the blue screen of death. On Tuesday 24 October 2006 08:33, Bobby Jafari wrote: > Installing Etch is killing my windows XP install. I start with a BLANK > HDD. Install windows, reboot and windows is fine. Then install Etch > and grub writes to the boot partition the relevant info that it need. > I now reboot and Debain Etch boot up. Reboot again and choose the > windows partition, and within seconds I get the windows BLUE screen. That is very strange as I have very recently done exactly the same and there were no problems at all starting Windows XP afterwards. Some questions: - Which filesystem did you use for XP? NTFS or VFAT? - How did you install XP? To the whole disk or to a smaller partition? - If you used the whole disk, how did you resize the partition to make room for Debian? - How did you set up the partitions to be used by Debian? - Can you reproduce the problem? I have never seen any reports where only installing grub would cause these problems. Cheers, FJP
