Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-11-01 Diskussionsfäden John G. Heim
From: Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 5:04 PM Did you, possibly together with a co-worker, actually try that route of manually repairing the Windows install? If yes, did it do any good? Yes, I just tried that and it did work. So at

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-11-01 Diskussionsfäden George Marselis
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:37 AM, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu wrote: Did you, possibly together with a co-worker, actually try that route of manually repairing the Windows install? If yes, did it do any good? Yes, I just tried that and it did work. So at the moment, I have a working

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-10-31 Diskussionsfäden John G. Heim
Did you, possibly together with a co-worker, actually try that route of manually repairing the Windows install? If yes, did it do any good? Yes, I just tried that and it did work. So at the moment, I have a working Win7/linux machine with the linux part installed via FAI. The message the

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-10-31 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi John, Did you, possibly together with a co-worker, actually try that route of manually repairing the Windows install? If yes, did it do any good? Yes, I just tried that and it did work. So at the moment, I have a working Win7/linux machine with the linux part installed via FAI. The

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-10-26 Diskussionsfäden John G. Heim
From: Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de John, may I ask you to perform the following experiment? Could you start another install on a system with presently working Windows, but abort the FAI install before grub or the like are installed. I'd claim that typing

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-10-26 Diskussionsfäden Michał Dwużnik
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 17:45, John G. Heim jh...@math.wisc.edu wrote: After running this version of the experiment, it wouldn't boot into Windows. So I did a straight debian install and it still wouldn't boot into Windows. In other words, while a straight debian install doesn't create the

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-10-26 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi John, [...] The main message is that A required device is inaccessible. It also says that a system changed has caused the problem and that I should insert my Windows disk, reboot, and select the repair option. [...] Did you, possibly together with a co-worker, actually try that route

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-10-22 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi John, Sorry for the late reply, and thanks Nicolas and Toomas for providing further insight. [...] I guess I'll leave it up to the FAI developers, Thomas and Michael, as to whether they consider this a bug and whether they want to pursue it further. I am willing to keep working on it but

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-10-05 Diskussionsfäden Nicolas Courtel
Le 04/10/2011 18:01, John G. Heim a écrit : Before we go any further on this problem, I should ask if anybody else is creating dual-boot systems with Windows 7 and FAI? I think an important thing to know would be whether this is a FAI problem or if its just me. I am doing a rather weird Win7

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-10-05 Diskussionsfäden John G. Heim
From: Nicolas Courtel cour...@cena.fr To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:54 AM Subject: Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot I have successfully installed some. AFAIR I have preserved the 2 partitions that are used by Windows 7, and sometimes the diagnostic partition

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-09-24 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Dear John, [...] One thing that I've noticed... Sda1 ends on block 5100 and sba2 also begins on 5100. That can't be right, can it? Note that on the working dual-boot system, sda2 starts on the block number *after* the end of sda1. If you are running FAI 3.4.8 or some experimental

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-09-19 Diskussionsfäden Holger Parplies
Hi, I can't really help you with your issue, but a few things do strike me as strange: John G. Heim wrote on 2011-09-19 17:11:38 -0500 [Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot]: [...] One thing that I've noticed... Sda1 ends on block 5100 and sba2 also begins on 5100. That can't be right, can

Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-09-07 Diskussionsfäden John G. Heim
All, I am having a problem partitioning a disk for dual boot, debian/Win7. Because I'm blind, I'm installing Win7 via an autounattend.xml file. It is set up to create a 40Gb partition as the first partition and to install Win 7 to it. If I do a normal debian install to partition 2, I get a

Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot

2011-09-07 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
Hi John, Thanks a lot for providing all the additional information. [...] disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1 primary /windows 0- ntfs rw logical swap 1500M swap rw logical / 30G- ext3 rw createopts=-m 5 tuneopts=-c 0 -i 0 [...] Could you please add the