XFS resizing & Win2k

[Federico Voges]

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On Thu, 29 May 2003 15:42:11 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama! wrote:

>On Thu, 29 May 2003, Federico Voges wrote:
>> The hd is a 80gb (Western Digital), so I partitioned like this:
>> 30GB Linux (XFS(
>> 2GB swap
>> 30GB Win2k (NTFS)
>> Rest of the disk: Scratch partition (currently: another gentoo
>> instalation - XFS) (extended partition)
>>
>> The partitions where phisically ordered that way.
>> Win2k didn't like it. I wouldn't boot after the first reboot during
>> install.
>>
>> I ended up using the first 30GB partition for win2k and the second one
>> for Linux. No problem at all.
>>
>> So, try to place your win2k partition near the "start" of the disk.
>
>crap.  which bootloader were you using for win2k?  I'm wondering if win2k
>is effected by the 1024 cylinder problem?  i really didn't want to have to
>start reordering partitions in addition to reloading Linux.
>

At that stage, the windows loader (remember that I coulnd even install
it). After I got everything running I installed GRUB on the MBR and
added Win2k to the boot menu (chainload +1, etc, etc).

And yes, my guess is that Win2k has some problems booting from beyond
cyl 1024...

Bye!
Federico Voges
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