Can't reboot Vista after dual-boot Jaunty install on Amilo Pi1536

[Frédéric Delanoy]

Hi,

yesterday I installed Jaunty on a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pi1536 laptop.
It basically worked, but when rebooting Vista,
the Fujistu Siemens recovery stuff comes in...

See following for the gory details...

Here is how the HD looked like initially (from what I recalled; didn't
overconfidently/stupidly make a backup of part table :( )
______________  ____________           ________________
|NTFS - WinRE|  |NTFS-SYSTEM|<empty2GB>| NTFS - DATA  |
--------------  ------------            --------------
|             | |
-> recov      | -> VISTA
              v
              gap

So (I'm trying to be as precise as possible) , I
- booted on a stock i386 Jaunty Live CD
- downsized SYSTEM from 79 down to 69 GB
- (using gparted) created an extended partition in the "conquered
space", with a 9 GB / install (no /home part) and a 1 GB swap
(I left the <empty2GB> alone, being suspicious)
    _______________
so |    SYSTEM     |<empty2GB>
   ----------------
became
   ________________
   | SYST | / |swap|<empty2GB>
   -----------------
       |   \       /
       |    \-----/
       v       v
   primary  extended

- installed jaunty i386
- rebooted onto Vista (was looking for problems, then rebooted...
seemed OK to me... after all I after a system partition shrinkage...
didn't look like a scandisk though... )
- booted on Jaunty
- pulled all the updates + a couple of other soft (including a kernel)
- rebooted onto Jaunty (with new kernel)
- edited GRUB's menu.lst
  -> was "jaunty new knl - jaunty recov new knl - jaunty orig knl -
jaunty recov orig knl - jaunty memtest - Other OSes - Vista"
  -> changed it to 'jaunty new knl - jaunty recov new knl - jaunty
memtest - other OSes - Vista" + default OS 0 -> 3
- rebooted: GRUB said "invalid default choice" (something similar)
because "other OSes" was selected by default" and dropped me to the
(updated) boot menu
- booted into jaunty + switched GRUB's default from 3 -> 4
- rebooted and was brought to Jaunty
  So far so good

NOW the "FUN" part:

I reboot, select Vista in GRUB then
- Vista seems to boot OK BUT in the booting procedure, Fujitsu Siemens
recovery program tackles in after a while and wants to reinstall to
factory settings; I select "cancel" and the computer shutdowns

- Boot into Jaunty again
* gparted sees nothing (whole disk unallocated)
* cfdisk looks blind also
* revert to the good old fdisk in despair  (note sda1 initially showed
ID 27 - Unknown; could mount is as NTFS so changed it to 7 using
fdisk; didn't help booting Vista)
=>
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe1c860dd

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1530    12288000    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2   *        1531       10536    72340695    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           10537       11811    10241437+   5  Extended
/dev/sda4           11813       12055     1951896    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5           12067       14594    20298752    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           10537       11681     9197149+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Looks like the <empty2GB> from above was in fact a hidden FAT32
partition (FSC_OTS below) (or was at least non seen initially by
gparted).
So I've *5* primary partitions... obviously wrong

fdisk in sector view shows

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe1c860dd

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048    24578047    12288000    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2   *    24579450   169260839    72340695    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3       169260840   189743714    10241437+   5  Extended
/dev/sda4       189759780   193663571     1951896    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5       193841152   234438655    20298752    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6       169260966   187655264     9197149+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

The swap partition isn't mounted or even seen (checked with 'swapon -s')

I could mount all of the partitions (but sda3 and swap)
-> "LANG=C df -h"
/dev/sda6             8.7G  3.3G  5.0G  40% /
< tmpfs, varrun, varlock, udev, tmpfs, lrm >
/dev/sda2              69G   44G   26G  63% /media/SYSTEM
/dev/sda4             1.9G   94M  1.8G   5% /media/FSC_OTS
/dev/sda5              20G   87M   20G   1% /media/DATA
/dev/sda1              12G  5.4G  6.5G  46% /media/WinRE

or, in sectors of 512 bytes, "LANG=C df -B 512"

Filesystem         512B-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6             18105040   6732632  10452696  40% /
< tmpfs, varrun, varlock, udev, tmpfs, lrm >
/dev/sda2            144681376  91019808  53661568  63% /media/SYSTEM
/dev/sda4              3896144    192016   3704128   5% /media/FSC_OTS
/dev/sda5             40597496    176496  40421000   1% /media/DATA
/dev/sda1             24575992  11131648  13444344  46% /media/WinRE

So now I'm stuck...

Does anyone know what else I could do now to "repair" Vista (provided
Vista isn't completely broken to begin with ;) )

uname -a
=> Linux LAPTOP 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 19:49:51
UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks in advance

Frédéric

PS: I've some backups of Windows data, but would like to avoid
reinstalling everything
PS2: this is my brother's laptop and it would be a bad first linux xp
if it made his laptop crash (he's a complete newb)
PS3: you'd better read this mail in fixed font...