Thanks for the reply Christoph,
You only get 4 PRIMARY partitions per HDD. I make three and the forth as EXTENDED. On EXTENDED
I go as high as Drive-T You need not waste a PRIMARY drive for LINUX because they can live anywhere
by default. Windows must have at lease one PRIMARY and he want the first unless you got trick ... than
you can put other versions of Windows on any of the EXTENDED partitions. FREEBSD can't live anywhere
but on a PRIMARY partition Same goes for PcBSD unless of course any OS is in a virtual machine where ALL
are force to live anywhere by command. You can bet, Windows is working on a way to screw that up and
force all to buy his way of VM. Fedora on the PRIMARY (1) is out the picture and should not matter in this
case anyway. Besides, I gave that to FreeBSD, where PcBSD and FreeBSD build upon one another.
Arch is the boss, Fedora is the protector. I don't care much for Windows anymore other than XP.
Standard hardware is standard hardware. A HDD has 15 years of live, 40years in real time if you
treat it right... Clean-house every other year, so that is not the issue. It may even work on your
machine as is. It's only 9 months old. I never encounter any problems until I tried to do the same
for Gigabyte. It will work once I find out what Gigabye is doing or not doing.
Seem to be right here, but what and why !!!
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUAWhich may have casue this to happen ...dracut: FATAL : No or empty root= argument
dracut: Refusing to continue
dracut: FATAL : No or empty root= argument
dracut: Refusing to continue
Signal caughtOnce you do this, you'll never turn back ... VM is cool. Drive 12 is where my's live, but some VM do have limitation.
I need it all and only one at a time that has access to Drive 11 for each.
PRIMARY (1) FreeBSD
PRIMARY (2) Windows Vista
PRIMARY (3) PcBSD
EXTENDED (4)
EXTENDED (5) Arch
EXTENDED (6) Swap
EXTENDED (7) Fedora
EXTENDED (8) Windows-7/32
EXTENDED (9) Windows-7/64
EXTENDED (10) data-disk
EXTENDED (11) sharris office
EXTENDED (12) vBOX for fun
etc
etc
etc
did you use a particular allocation unit for it? did you use the default that is 512?
I use Partition Commander to create my partions, than I let UNIX do the rest, like zero-out the drive,
notrunc,noerror to insure no virus just in case and re-formanting. As long as you have room to relocate
files and entire OS's and are careful to you are only adding life and security to your HDD, not taking it away.
I had a similar problem just like yours, although it can be something else, try re-formatting using the default 512
I don't really unerstand but I just do stuff by the instrustions. I guest Commander take care of the 512 1M is best here.
16M is slow. Until I write a good script to run as I sleep, this is what i do. Linux and BSD are great, they even take
care of Windows homes and back-ups and he never said Thanks.
I Clean House First.. Than the HDD is like new again:Erase the whole hard drive
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M
or virus and cross-links
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M conv=notrunc,noerror
I build partitions with Commander and install Arch on P-5 Than i install
Fedora, FreeBSD and PcBSD. Than i:Make a copy of full MBR:
dd if=/dev/sda of = /9/mbr-complete bs=512 count=1
Make a copy of bootloader only
dd if=/dev/sda of = /9/mbr-boot.loader bs=446 count=1
Make a copy of table or disk signature only:
dd if=/dev/sda of = /9/mbr-table.only bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446
............... For Later
...............
Restore full MBR
dd if=/9/mbr-complete of = /dev/sda bs=512 count=1
Restore boot-loader only
dd if=/9/mbr-boot.loader of = /dev/sda bs=446 count=1
Restore table or disk signature only:
dd if=/9/mbr-table.only of = /dev/sda bs=1 count=64 skip=446 seek=446
