Hi there! On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:55:31 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > X-Debbugs-Cc:ing the debian-eeepc-devel mailing list for obvious > reasons. Please Cc: me in replies, I am not subscribed to the list.
Still true (but obviously now with a cc:). > Feel free to duplicate/rename/reassign this bug. Since I do not own > this machine, I cannot do further tests, sorry. Due to unplanned circumstances, I still have the machine, so I performed more tests :-) NB, I reordered the quoting parts. > 1) the NTFS XP partition is now corrupted and need chkdsk > > By default the Eee PC 1000H had Windows XP installed with two > partitions: 85GB (the system one) and 65GB. I reduced the first one > to 50GB through the d-i and it worked without any problem (at least > d-i did not show me any error). [...] > When I mount the same partition on Debian (stock NTFS support, no > NTFS-3G yet), dmesg shows: > > NTFS volume version 3.1. > NTFS-fs error (device sda1): load_system_files(): Volume is \ > dirty. Mounting read-only. Run chkdsk and mount in Windows. I booted on a Windows XP Pro installation CD-Rom (external USB drive), chose the recovery option and then launched `chkdsk c:`. Then rebooted into Debian and indeed mount did not complain anymore: NTFS driver 2.1.29 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. NTFS volume version 3.1. Unfortunately, the GRUB error is still there: > However, if I try to boot on XP through GRUB-Legacy I get the > following error (translated from Italian): > > root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 > savedefault > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > Error reading from disk > Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to reboot It seems the problem comes from Windows XP itself, but TestDisk [1] did not show any error WRT the NTFS Boot Sector. Also removing the boot flags from /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3 or setting it to /dev/sda1 only did not solve the problem. Using XP's fixmbr resulted in an unbootable system: corrupted partition table, but d-i in rescue mode did not have any problem with it and `grub-install /dev/sda` fixed at least the boot. Microsoft `ofdisk /mbr` failed: obviously there is no more GRUB and thus directly the error message from XP. XP's fixboot failed as well: GRUB is still there, but I have now the correct English translation: A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart Searching for this error on Google revealed that it can be considered a "common" error caused by unknown factors and still unsolved. Since it is sometime a symptom of a broken hard disk, I tested the latter disk through the HITACHI Drive Fitness Test [2] (version 4.09 Build 00, Apr 10 2007, from Ultimate Boot CD 4.1.0 [3]): the hard disk is healthy, confirmed by smartd [4] after an extended self-test. I wanted to check a last time if the problem was the partition table, but Power Quest Partition Magic 8.0 failed to understand it. At this point, after two full days of tests, I decided to give up and start from scratch again: first, I wiped the partition table out with dd, then I created a big FAT32 partition with Microsoft ofdisk and formatted it with oformat. After having wiped the partition table out again with dd, I used the ASUS Recovery CD to re-install XP. This last step recreated two NTFS partitions (85GB and 70GB) and the EFI one (40MB), thus there is no more the hidden FAT32 used for recovery. Finally the fun began: booting the d-i, as the first time with the Debian Eee PC image. This time I chose to differently partition the hard disk (to be clear, all the steps were done from partman): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 3648 29302528+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 3649 19452 126945630 5 Extended /dev/sda3 19453 19457 40162+ ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /dev/sda5 3649 9727 48829536 83 Linux /dev/sda6 9728 10092 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 10093 19452 75184168+ 83 Linux --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The installation finished and now XP boots without any problem. I do not really know where the previous problem came from: however, since I do not have anymore that environment to further debug it, please feel free to close this bug. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://packages.debian.org/testdisk [2] http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm [3] http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ [4] http://packages.debian.org/smartmontools
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