On (03/04/06 09:17), Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Will wine|win4lin|VMWare save my XP bacon? > Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:17:44 -0700 > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,EMPTY_MESSAGE, > FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=no version=3.1.0 > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:14:41 -0500 > John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I do not fully understand what happened. I was NOT using any repair > > CD; the only XP resources available were those on the partition I had > > copied via dd to /dev/hdb1 (D:, in Windows talk) from /dev/hda1
<snip from my earlier post> > its really pretty simple, Windows doesn't like to boot off of any > drive but the first partition of the first hard-drive. Why? who > knows. but the "map" commands you used in GRUB fool it into thinking > its the first drive so then it boots just fine. > > I can only guess that as part of its boot process it checks for > certain bits on the disk, but being Windows, it doesn't specify "my" > disk, but "the first" disk... you know what happens when you assume. > > You happened to have XP on BOTH disks and since they were duplicate > images, your D: windows found what it needed on the C: drive and thus > booted... until you killed the C: drive. make sense? What you say makes sense, but it's not what happened. Let me recapitulate as simply as I can: 1. I copied my whole Windows XP partition to another disk; actual command: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 bs=$((1*1024*1024)). (Warning: the partitions must be the same size. 2. I booted into XP (from the original disk), and it discovered "new hardware," and recognized both C: and D; 3. I (foolishly) wiped /dev/hda1, and then copied by Debian root partition: dd if=/dev/hda3 of=/dev/hda1 bs=$((1*1024*1024)). (Same warning as 1. above.) 4. Next I rewrote /boot/grub/menu.lst to reflect the new location of the XP installation: root (hd1,0) 5. XP wouldn't boot. I tried various stuff, finally wrote d-u, got the suggestion to try mapping. 6. Booted successfully into Windows XP. It's at this point that the puzzling event occurred: XP reinstalled itself, without asking AT ALL. It could not possibly have drawn on resources from C: (aka /dev/hda1), since that location was now occupied by Debian GNU/Linux. Had the events occured at step 2, your explanation would very likely be correct. But not at step 6. > in fact, as I go back and read this over, it makes even more > sense. Its probably not that windows "Cares" which partition its one, > but that its hardwired to access the first disk for something during > its boot process and when it isn't the first disk, fails. THe "map" > redirects that access to the proper disk. > > A Andrew, thanks for taking a stab at it. Probably this is more detail than anyone really wanted to have. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ==================================================== PGP key 1024D/99421A63 2005-01-05 EE51 79E9 F244 D734 A012 1CEC 7813 9FE9 9942 1A63 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 99421A63
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