Parted backport doesn't work for all? (WAS: Ubuntu killed my HD??)

[Jaime M. Garmendia]

This is nothing more than a WAG (wild-ass guess, for those not familiar 
with US slang):

Have you tried to flag the /dev/sda1 partition as bootable, using fdisk?



At 10:32 AM 10/22/2004, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 05:53:38 -0700
>From: "Bob D." <bob_beyng553 at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: Parted backport doesn't work for all? (WAS: Ubuntu killed
>         my      HD??)
>To: Ubuntu-Users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>Message-ID: <1098449618.4162.16.camel at localhost.localdomain>
>Content-Type: text/plain
>
>On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 00:17 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> >
> > does that mean the backport of the parted 1.6.12 patches  into
> > Ubuntu's parted 1.6.9 is not working for everyone who dual boot?
> >
>
>It hasn't worked for me.
>
>There may be other issues I'm not aware of, but fdisk seems to show my
>HD geometry is OK on my SCSI boot drive:
>-------------
>Disk /dev/sda: 18.3 GB, 18351967232 bytes
>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2231 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/sda1               1        1305    10482381    7  HPFS/NTFS
>/dev/sda2   *        1306        2188     7092697+  83  Linux
>/dev/sda3            2189        2231      345397+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
>/dev/sda5            2189        2231      345366   82  Linux swap
>-------------
>Yet when I try to boot XP from this drive I get the "Filesystem type
>unknown, partition type 0x7 chainloader +1" error. If I uninstall
>Ubuntu, delete the Linux partitions, and replace the MBR I'm then able
>to boot back into XP. This works every time.

Jaime Garmendia