----- "Russell Johnson" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:34 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Does anybody know what MS has done to make their system so > > easy to corrupt if we let Linux resize it's installed partition? > > In my experience, the boot loader and the first couple of files loaded > for Windows are very very fragile. Moving them from their place in the > drive boot record and at the beginning of the partition can make the > system break. There may be other things going on too. I have resized > NTFS partitions with Partition Magic and PartED, but it always > requires rebooting and letting Windows scandisk fix what it thinks is > corruptions.
But wasn't this true (and anticipated by Linux installers) way back before WinXP? > That's actually what makes the installation I outlined work well. > Windows never knows it's not the only OS on the system. As far as the > boot loader knows, it's being called as it should be. The difference > being grub or lilo (or your bootloader of choice) call the windows > loader, rather than the BIOS directly calling it. > > Russell Johnson > [email protected] I understand this. -- Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ I knit little sweaters for my pet peeves. --- unknown _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
