I get to the configure hard drive part and I seem to be messing up. I attempted to make 3 partitions, swap, boot and root, I labeled the one I will make the boot partition bootable and then continue on. I also have Windows on another partition that is marked bootable. I tried to boot and it just gives me an invallid partition table error. I deleted the linux partitions and it booted into Windows again fine. Is there something wrong with having two bootable partitions or something? What should I be doing here? The documentation doesn't really explain it.
What version of windows, and what partition is it on?
[QUOTE=redonkulous;18196021]I get to the configure hard drive part and I seem to be messing up. I attempted to make 3 partitions, swap, boot and root, I labeled the one I will make the boot partition bootable and then continue on. I also have Windows on another partition that is marked bootable. I tried to boot and it just gives me an invallid partition table error. I deleted the linux partitions and it booted into Windows again fine. Is there something wrong with having two bootable partitions or something? What should I be doing here? The documentation doesn't really explain it.[/QUOTE]
You should probably only have one 'bootable' partition on your disk. Make it the windows one. You don't need a bootable flag on any of the Linux partitions. Grub handles it just fine.
Also make sure that /boot is as far forward on the drive as possible. Many older BIOS' have issues seeking past 8gb.
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Alright then. Thanks
It is XP and on sda1 for the guy who asked.
Before I do something very unintellignet I must be sure:
I should make the partition that has GRUB on it the partition marked boot, right?
how does one install arch without reading the documentation :v:
I did, thoroughly. It was great for everything except partitioning the hard disc.
Except it is
Did you miss [url=http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide#C:_Prepare_Hard_Drive]this[/url]?
This thread can die. I got it working a few days ago.
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