Bug 44831

Summary:	After installing Linux, NT crashes
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ved Singh <ved_prakash_s>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Ved Singh 2001-06-18 06:30:57 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; netcompass)

Description of problem:


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have a windows NT installation in primary partition(c: FAT16)
2.Install Linux. Choose to partition the available space
3.Now boot through NT
	

Actual Results:  NT crashes

Expected Results:  Nt should have come up.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2001-06-18 16:01:13 UTC

Any hdd/partition layout details available? Where did you install LILO? What
type of crash? When exactly?

Comment 2 Ved Singh 2001-06-19 05:24:01 UTC

I have 20 GB HDD.
/dev/hda1 - (2.1GB) FAT partition where NT is installed.
/dev/hda2 - (8 GB) FAT partition
Rest around 9 GB remain unpartitioned.  I installed Linux on this unpartitioned space. Created following partitions - /, /boot, /home,/usr,/usr/local, /var, 
/tmp.
At the LILO configuration step - chose Skip LILO configuration and created a boot diskette.
After that , I am able to boot through the boot floppy.
Now , when I boot without floppy, the machine boots trhough NT and when it reaches, blue screen of OS loading, it crashes there.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-06-19 15:35:52 UTC

I can't explain why this would happen.  The installer doesn't write anything at
all to the FAT partitions.  I haven't seen this happen before, and we test
dual-booting pretty regularly.

Comment 4 Ved Singh 2001-06-20 03:55:36 UTC

Actually, the problem was bacause of NT service packs. You need to have at 
least service pack 3. Thank you all for your efforts.