On Wednesday 04 Mar 2009, Shahrukh Khan wrote: > I have Fedora8 with Windows Xp installed as dual boot. Initially i > installed XP on secondary partition in order to install fedora as my > primary partition. The sudo fdisk -l command returned this > > [r...@localhost ~]# sudo fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x2e0f2e0f > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 26 208813+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 2583 9729 57408277+ f W95 Ext'd > (LBA) /dev/sda3 * 27 2582 20531070 8e Linux > LVM /dev/sda5 2583 5164 20739883+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda6 5165 9728 36660298+ 7 HPFS/NTFS >
Looks like you have installed WinXP on a logical partition. IIRC, all MS OSs likes to install on the first partition of the first disk and that partition has to be a primary partition. I think this has to do with the way DOS used to assign partition labels C: D: etc ... You can try hiding the other partitions and see if it helps. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
