On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 15:42 +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: > I've just inherited a Dell Dimension 8300. It has a single 120Gb SATA > drive, and I'd like to repartition with a view to dual-booting. It's > got > an OEM partition on the first 31 Mb of the drive. > > When I try to boot with the System Rescue CD (to use NTFSresize), I > get an error message "hda: host proected area => 1" and the boot > hangs. I'm assuming that this refers to the OEM partition - is this > right? How do I get the bootloader to ignore this partition?
The host protected area is generally pretty large as it should contain all required to reinstall the original Windows OS (well, I haven't seen a Linux one). On my IBM ThinkPad it is actually at the end of the drive and not a partition at all just an area of the disk that contains data that the BIOS can read. I suspect some other problem. Does something else like Knoppix or the Ubuntu Live CD boot OK? -- Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
