[26302] in Athena Bugs
Re: Linux-Athena installer improperly created partitions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Fri Jan 14 16:52:23 2005
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:50:48 -0500
Message-Id: <200501142150.j0ELomm7004250@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
To: kchen@mit.edu
In-reply-to: <41E5F37D.4040108@mit.edu> (message from Kevin Chen on Wed, 12
Jan 2005 23:05:17 -0500)
cc: bugs@mit.edu
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
>The user says that he "had my hard drive split into Windows XP NTFS
>partition, and Athena partitions. Grub boot loader was configured to
>load either Athena or Windows."
Thanks for the info. Do you know if he used the NTFS resizing
functionality when doing the install?
>He then tried to boot Windows from Grub, and the computer just hung.
>Using the Windows XP installation CD, he found that the former Windows
>partition was shown as unpartitioned space.
Assuming he also got a functional Athena install out of this, a copy of
the install log (/var/athena/install.log, or via "athinfo <host> install.log")
would be *very* useful in debugging this.
thanks,
andrew
