[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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