Error in boot loading

[soheila jafari]

--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> soheila jafari wrote:
> >  Fisrt I install Windows XP on my coomputer.and
> then I
> >  install Fedora core2 on my computer in the
> different
> >  partition.
> >  During installation of Fedora core2 I recieve a
> >  message about an warning on boot loader.If I
> would
> >  cancel the error ,the Fedora could'nt install.So
> I
> >  ignore the error.When I insatll Fedora
> compeletlly,I
> >  see that Windows XP could'nt boot.
> 
> See
>
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html
> 
> for how to recover from this problem.
> 
> Paul.
> 
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Hi,
I saw
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html
and did these steps:
*sfdisk -d /dev/hda > MyPartitionTable.txt
*editing MyPartitionTable.txt to remove the warnings,
*saving the edited 
*text, and
*cat MyPartitionTable.txt | sfdisk --no-reread -*H255
/dev/hda
and I saw:
*Warning: HDIO_GETGEO says that there are 16 heads

*Disk /dev/hda: 79656 cylinders, 255 heads, 63
*sectors/track
*Old situation:
*Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
*  for C/H/S=*/16/63 (instead of 79656/255/63).
*For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
*Units = cylinders of 516096 bytes, blocks of 1024
*bytes, counting from 0

*   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id 
*System
*/dev/hda1   *      0+  20113-  20114-  10136983+   7 
*HPFS/NTFS
*/dev/hda2      20113+  79623-  59511-  29993355    f 
*W95 Ext'd (LBA)
*/dev/hda3          0       -       0          0    0 
*Empty
*/dev/hda4          0       -       0          0    0 
*Empty
*/dev/hda5      20113+  40226-  20114-  10136983+   b 
*W95 FAT32
*/dev/hda6      40226+  60339-  20114-  10136983+   b 
*W95 FAT32
*/dev/hda7      60340+  77541   17202-   8669776+  83 
*Linux
*/dev/hda8      77542+  79622    2081-   1048792+  82 
*Linux swap
*New situation:
*Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0

*   Device Boot    Start       End   #sectors  Id 
*System
*/dev/hda1   *        63  20274029   20273967   7 
*HPFS/NTFS
*/dev/hda2      20274030  80260739   59986710   f  W95
*Ext'd (LBA)
*/dev/hda3             0         -          0   0 
*Empty
*/dev/hda4             0         -          0   0 
*Empty
*/dev/hda5      20274093  40548059   20273967   b  W95
*FAT32
*/dev/hda6      40548123  60822089   20273967   b  W95
*FAT32
*/dev/hda7      60822783  78162335   17339553  83 
*Linux
*/dev/hda8      78162399  80259983    2097585  82 
*Linux swap
*Warning: partition 7 does not end at a cylinder
*boundary

*sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing
*changed.
*(If you really want this, use the --force option.)
My questions:
It has some warnings.
Is it true?
And then what will I do?
Please help me
Best regards



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