From: shashi (shashi.boddula_at_oracle.com)
Date: Sun Oct 15 2006 - 12:13:09 CEST
Message-ID: <453209B5.5040802@oracle.com> Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 15:43:09 +0530 From: shashi <shashi.boddula@oracle.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] windows partition damaged
Have you included /boot in LVM ? I mean , have you created a LV for
/boot ? . If yes , this is a known issue (i think , but i am not sure) .
If you want to use LVM, then create 2 partitions , one for /boot and
another for LVM (and put /,/usr,/var and swap under LVM).
Thanks & Regards,
Shashi Kanth
C'est Pierre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had this accident, while trying to install SLES 9 for a multi-boot
> setup. I have had windows and fedora previously so I decided to
> install SLES 9 into it instead of fedora.
>
> I had my 40gb disk like disk:
>
> /dev/hda1 - windows 30gb
> /dev/hda5 - linux ~10gb
>
> During SLES install, the screen partitioning screen shown it had
> "pre-defined" actions, among which was one to resize the windows
> partition, but I've gone into the the "Custom" and "Expert" scheme,
> and chose I want only the partition hda5 and put lvm on it as well as
> boot partition.
>
> After I rebooted, the windows partition no longer booted. I've set an
> entry into grub, like this:
>
>
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
> makeactive
>
> It didn't work. I decided to go with a XP cd and use it's rescue
> console and run fixmbr and fixboot. No luck. I tried installing lilo
> to atempt fixing it, I endedup with 2 bootloaders, when I'd hit the
> entry for windows inside grub, lilo would be called with it's own
> entries and the one for windows, didn't work as well.
>
> So far, I can still access the disk's data and that's the only light on it.
>
> Any help or alternative ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Pierre
>
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