>-----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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5106 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090515/7e709a86/attachment-0005.bin>