[ale] Partitioning Problems

[Jim Lynch]

Andrew Grieser wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:01:13 -0500
> Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I've been dual booting Linux and windows since Win 95 (maybe before).  
>> Never had windows cause a problem with a Linux partition.  Personally I 
>> don't think it's worth the effort.  It's always been suggested that you 
>> install Windows first and then Linux.  I've done the reverse and gotten 
>> away with it sometimes, and sometimes not. 
>>
>> Jim.
>>     
>
> Well, I think I assumed success too soon. I thought it was working, because Ubuntu and windows were co-existing happily, and then I tried to install fedora and it complained that the partition table was unreadable, and wanted to initialize it (warning: will lose all data on drive).
>
> I went ahead and re-initialized it in fedora, but I'm still running into problems. What would be causing this?
>
> Andrew
>   
That's  bit strange.  I've not run into that, but I haven't run Fedora 
for a while.  Let me understand, you had partitions that Ubuntu and 
Windows were happy with but when you booted a CD or DVD with Fedora, it 
said it didn't like the partition table.  Then you let Fedora 
re-initialize it.  At this point I suspect that you don't have a valid 
Windows partition any longer, unless you gave it the right parameters 
when you let Fedora re-initialize it. 

What problems are you running into?  You should probably not let another 
install re-initialize the partition table, unless you're prepared to 
reload all the OSs.  That's fairly destructive.

Jim.