On Tuesday 04 January 2005 17:46, David Reynolds wrote: > Actually that seems to be exactly what I've done, but it still has the > /boot partition (former "C:") as the "active" primary partition, according > to my partition table. Linux doesn't care, but Windows runs into the > "blinking cursor on a black screen" problem when I try to choose it from > Lilo. > > Is there (or rather, what is) a way to set the active 'bit' on your primary > partition? That might save me the entire reinstall, which would be nice...
Yes. If you boot from the CD, you should be able to get to a command line interface and then run fdisk. You can make partitions active and inactive there. However, you can only have one active primary partition. If, during the original disk partitioning, you created two primary partitions and two logical drives, C and D, if you make D active, then C will become inactive and Windows may reissue the drive letters which will make the D logical drive the C logical drive and mess up all your drive letters from the original install. If this is the case, you are going to have to bite the bullet and remove the second primary partition, reduce the size of the primary partition to just the C drive size and then create an extended partition for the D and other logical drives on the disk. If this doesn't happen, then it doesn't matter if the C logical drive is hidden or not since it will be a Linux drive and not really readable under Win2k anyway. -- Bryan Phinney
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