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From: tomas on 2 Oct 2005 08:40
Hi,

I have a new motherboard, a Gigabyte 8I945 with Intel 945 chipset, and
a Samsung SATA-II hard disk on which I have tried to install Slackware
10.2. I have first installed Windows 2000 which worked without any
problems even if the CD I installed from doesn't have any service
packages. It was installed on a 60G partition which is about half the
disk.
Then I went on installing Slackware using sata.i kernel. I used linux
fdisk to make 3 new partitions on the remaining part of the disk. The
system recognized the disk as HDC. Everything went smoothly and I used
Lilo to load the kernel (sata.i) on the MBR. I rebooted and selected
linux and there it was, everything seemed to work perfectly. Next thing
I tried was to boot into Windows but there my luck ended. Windows
booted about half way then I got an BSOD! I tried to install Windows
again but the partition table (I presume) was damaged beyond repair. I
had to low level format the drive to get it usable again. If I had
known how to do it had perhaps been enough to clear the first couple of
sectors.
OK, after installing Windows again I went on to start installing
Slackware again. I was a little more cautious and only created new
partitions and added file types. I then went back to try to boot
Windows but the same thing had happened again! It looked like fdisk was
in some way incompatible with the SATA-II disk or the drivers in sata.i
was faulty or not the correct ones.
After a new low level format (i recommend Maxtor's Powermax, it doesn't
care if the drive is not from Maxtor) I tried a new kernel, test26.s.
After loading the disk was seen as SDA (SCSI)! Using fdisk again to
create partitions I went back to boot Windows - and it worked!
Going back to the slackware install I got a new problem. The install
program refused to see the CD drive with the install CD. It is an IDE
CD/DVD drive used of course to load the install program. I looked at
the config file that belongs to test26.s and IDE support was configured
of course. I tried to use ide-scsi but it didn't work either, so here I
am stuck. How do I persuade the install program to recognize the CD/DVD
drive?
Hope someone can help me!

Tomas

From: Christopher A. Shamis on 2 Oct 2005 13:51
On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 05:40:46 -0700, tomas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a new motherboard, a Gigabyte 8I945 with Intel 945 chipset, and a
> Samsung SATA-II hard disk on which I have tried to install Slackware 10.2.
> I have first installed Windows 2000 which worked without any problems even
> if the CD I installed from doesn't have any service packages. It was
> installed on a 60G partition which is about half the disk.
> Then I went on installing Slackware using sata.i kernel. I used linux
> fdisk to make 3 new partitions on the remaining part of the disk. The
> system recognized the disk as HDC. Everything went smoothly and I used
> Lilo to load the kernel (sata.i) on the MBR. I rebooted and selected linux
> and there it was, everything seemed to work perfectly. Next thing I tried
> was to boot into Windows but there my luck ended. Windows booted about
> half way then I got an BSOD! I tried to install Windows again but the
> partition table (I presume) was damaged beyond repair. I had to low level
> format the drive to get it usable again. If I had known how to do it had
> perhaps been enough to clear the first couple of sectors.
> OK, after installing Windows again I went on to start installing Slackware
> again. I was a little more cautious and only created new partitions and
> added file types. I then went back to try to boot Windows but the same
> thing had happened again! It looked like fdisk was in some way
> incompatible with the SATA-II disk or the drivers in sata.i was faulty or
> not the correct ones.
> After a new low level format (i recommend Maxtor's Powermax, it doesn't
> care if the drive is not from Maxtor) I tried a new kernel, test26.s.
> After loading the disk was seen as SDA (SCSI)! Using fdisk again to create
> partitions I went back to boot Windows - and it worked! Going back to the
> slackware install I got a new problem. The install program refused to see
> the CD drive with the install CD. It is an IDE CD/DVD drive used of course
> to load the install program. I looked at the config file that belongs to
> test26.s and IDE support was configured of course. I tried to use ide-scsi
> but it didn't work either, so here I am stuck. How do I persuade the
> install program to recognize the CD/DVD drive?
> Hope someone can help me!
>
> Tomas

It would help greatly if you could post a copy of your /etc/lilo.conf and
your fdisk output. Not knowing how you partioned your disk (extended,
primary) makes things harder.

If you can get windows to work, and you can get linux to work (albeit
separately) then it's just a boot loader config problem. I recommend you
drop LILO in favor of GRUB. That switch alone might take care of things.

Also, if you've got a corrupt partition table, you don't need to low-level
format. (which is actually something else entirely, but I know what you
mean) All you need to do is rewrite the partition table, which linux's
fdisk will do for you. (just delete all the partitions and create new
ones, then save)

Or, if you want to be REALLY sure, just wipe the first 512 bytes of your
disk like so:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdXX bs=512 count=1

(where XX is your drive)
CAUTION! THIS WILL MAKE THE DRIVE EFFECTIVELY "BLANK"


Also, check the GRUB and LILO howto's at www.tldp.org they'll be able to
go into much greater detail about what is going on in the boot process.

From: tomas on 2 Oct 2005 17:04
Thank you Christopher but I don't think I have a problem with fdisk
when using test26.s. The remaining problem now is why I can't see the
CD/DVD-drive when trying to install from the CD. Maybe I will have to
transfer the install files to the hard disk and install from there and
solve the CD/DVD-problem later. Thank you for telling me how to clear
the partition table - however I got to have a working linux system for
this, at least if I wish to keep windows which I must to be able to use
my internet bank!

Tomas

From: none on 5 Oct 2005 18:12

I have had problems installing linux alongside win2k before. Win2k is
not very tolerant of changes in partition table after it has been
installed. try creating all partitions with win2k first, then reformat
to ext3 reiser after win2k is up and running.

regards,
ahnkle

tomas wrote:
> Hi,
<snip>
> Tomas
>
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