Dual Boot of Fedora/XP Installation
Richard Heldmann
rheldmann at patmedia.net
Thu Sep 2 00:05:32 UTC 2004
II have a Dell 8300 with a 120Gb SATA Seagate drive. I set my Dell 8300's
bios to UDMA off, and tried to install FC2 at the boot prompt I entered:
boot: linux sda=14589,255,63
The install went well.
Feeling paranoid, I booted my Knoppix Cd, and I did a sfdisk -d /dev/hda |
sfdisk --no-read -H255 /dev/hda
I am afraid I screwed up the partition table. How can I check it? From the
Knoppix CD I get:
root at ttyp0[~]# sfdisk -d /dev/hda
# partition table of /dev/hda
unit: sectors
/dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 80262, Id=16
/dev/hda2 : start= 80325, size=193326210, Id= 7, bootable
/dev/hda3 : start=193406535, size= 208845, Id=83
/dev/hda4 : start=193615380, size= 40756905, Id= f
/dev/hda5 : start=193615443, size= 38668392, Id=83
/dev/hda6 : start=232283898, size= 2088387, Id=82
I intended to give linux 20Gb and the balance to XP. Fedora split the 20Gb
into 4 separate partitions. Does this look okay? How can I check or fix it?
Thanks,
Richard
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