[CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu at orgfarm.uu.se
Fri May 15 06:48:04 UTC 2009


>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf
>Of Robert Heller
>Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:03 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Cc: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
>
>> > The most curious thing happened now, I get a blank screen after the
Windows
>> > installer screen saying something about "Setting up install
procedure..."
>> > just at the beginning. That is to say, this happens only if the hd with
>> > CentOS is connected to power. If I disconnect the power connector to
the
>> > CentOS drive, the Windows installer happily goes on.
>> >
>> > Is this to be expected, that Windows won't install if it sees a hd with
>> > another OS as master?
>>
>> It's a known issue - I've seen it affecting other distro's (Fedora in my
>> case). It's a Windows XP thing, not specific to the distro, and only
>> affects WinXP afaik (doesn't affect Win2K, couldn't care less about
>> Vista). I first came across it trying to install WinXP on a system that
>> had previously had Fedora on it and the installer hangs at a black
>> screen. The "solution" is to do as you've done and disconnect the drive.
>
>In the OP's case, this would
>mean making the disk with Linux installed the 'slave' (/dev/hdb) and
>the new disk (for MS-Windows) the 'master' (/dev/hda).  The OP would
>then have to boot up with a rescue disk to fix the /etc/fstab file
>(unless it uses labeled file systems) and re-install the boot loader.

Thanks for the confirmation all. I'll try switching the master/slave
settings. 

Luckily I'm still at the testing phase, to see how things'll go smoothest,
before I go live so to speak.
-- 
/Sorin
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