All,
I still cannot get FAI to create a dual boot system. When I last talked
about this, I thought I had figured it out. My theory (at the time) was that
because Win 7 creates a very small partition at the beginning of the disk,
when I did an unattended install that did not create that partition and then
did an FAI install, it confused Win7. But that apparently is not the
problem.
My co-worker created a dual boot win7/debian system by hand installing both.
I modified my unattended install to more-or-less replicate his system. Below
is the output from disk from his system. Below that is the output from fdisk
from my system. Win7 boots on his system. Not only does Win7 not boot on my
system, I can't even repair it. Previously, I used to be able to boot into
Win7 but only after using the Win7 installation CD to repair it.
Here is the disk_config file I'm using:
=== disk_config ===
disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1,2 bootable:1
primary - 0- ntfs -
primary /windows 0- ntfs rw
logical swap 1500M swap rw
logical / 30G- ext3 rw createopts="-m 5" tuneopts="-c 0 -i
0"
=== end disk_config ===
=== Working===
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000cb10c
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 12749 102297600 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 12749 30395 141737985 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 * 12749 29675 135956480 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 29675 30395 5780480 82 Linux swap / Solaris
===
=== Not Working ===
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004236b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 26 204800 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 26 8381 67108864 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 8381 30394 176825117 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 8381 8571 1531838 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 8572 30394 175293216 83 Linux
