[wellylug] SuSE 9.2 / Windows 2000 boot issues

Jamie Dobbs jamie.dobbs at orcon.net.nz
Thu May 12 09:17:47 NZST 2005


> Wayne Koorts writes:
>>something I've never done before.  I suspect that this may have something
>> to
>>do with it.  I know the data is still intact as SuSE mounts it on boot
>> and I
>>can access the data fine (it's NTFS).
>
>>/dev/hda1   *           1          5649    45375561    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
>
> Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't /dev/hda1 have a type of HPFS/NTFS,
> not FAT32, in the partition table?  (I'm not saying that's your
> problem, but it could be...)

Why? FAT32 is a perfectly valid choice, and IMHO better as at least you
can easily access a FAT32 partition from both Linux and a boot floppy.






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