Cant Install IBM Boot Manager

I have finally two seperate drives, a 40gb drive for my primary OS 
(Windows XP SP2) and my secondary 8gb drive (reborn from broken XBOX) for 
eComStation. I have my eComStation drive set up and ready to rock, and my 
windows drive has been working for some time, and I have 7mb set aside in 
front of my windows partition on the primary drive to accept the IBM Boot 
manager. When I load the eCS install CD, it says disk 1 (40gb) reports 
corrupt partiton table, and no changes can be made to this disc. I can not 
resize my JFS volume down 7mb to put the IBM Boot manager there, so thats 
a no-go. When I use PartitionMagic 8 for windows, it reports no errors, 
and many other tools also report no errors. Why wont the eCS LVM tool let 
me install the IBM boot manager to this empty 7mb parition as I used to be 
able? Please help, unplugging the drives on reboot is getting very 
annoying...

On Thu, 31 May 2007 05:58:54 UTC, Synper311@aol.com (Brett Carlock) wrote:

> I have finally two seperate drives, a 40gb drive for my primary OS 
> (Windows XP SP2) and my secondary 8gb drive (reborn from broken XBOX) for 
> eComStation. I have my eComStation drive set up and ready to rock, and my 
> windows drive has been working for some time, and I have 7mb set aside in 
> front of my windows partition on the primary drive to accept the IBM Boot 
> manager. When I load the eCS install CD, it says disk 1 (40gb) reports 
> corrupt partiton table, and no changes can be made to this disc. I can not

> resize my JFS volume down 7mb to put the IBM Boot manager there, so thats 
> a no-go. When I use PartitionMagic 8 for windows, it reports no errors, 
> and many other tools also report no errors. Why wont the eCS LVM tool let 
> me install the IBM boot manager to this empty 7mb parition as I used to be

> able? Please help, unplugging the drives on reboot is getting very 
> annoying...

Sounds like some tool or OS did something unorthodox to the partition
table.  I suggest using DFSee to fix it.  (Try starting with "Fix CHS
values to geometry", and maybe "add default LVM info" as well.)


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Alex Taylor                                        
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Alex Taylor wrote:
> Sounds like some tool or OS did something unorthodox to the partition
> table.  I suggest using DFSee to fix it.  (Try starting with "Fix CHS
> values to geometry", and maybe "add default LVM info" as
well.)

Awesome, I will give this a shot. Its a shame the stripped down DFSEE 
engine in the install process cant allow you to do something like that so 
you can fix the LVM and CHS values from the install screen, that would be 
very helpful in the future perhaps.
I belive the OS at fault is windows vista RC1, which was sharing my XP 
drive for a day to show off to my friends how nice vista is. It even 
weired out my boot.ini thing, i had to use Windows XP recovery to fixmbr 
and fixboot, but after that, all seemed well and PartitionMagic said the 
drive was 100% okay.

Hopefully it works!
Thank you for responding, I have been waiting with bated breath! No joke. 
:P
Brett Carlock via WINXP soon to be eCS 2.0b4 :D

Okay, awesome suggestion! My drive is now ready to accept the boot manager 
and it works. Now my issue is that eCS wont boot or install properly on 
its drive. It stops always at the sddhelper.sys driver. What gives?

On Thu, 31 May 2007 05:58:54 UTC, Synper311@aol.com (Brett Carlock) 
wrote:

> I have finally two seperate drives, a 40gb drive for my primary OS 
> (Windows XP SP2) and my secondary 8gb drive (reborn from broken XBOX) for 
> eComStation. I have my eComStation drive set up and ready to rock, and my 
> windows drive has been working for some time, and I have 7mb set aside in 
> front of my windows partition on the primary drive to accept the IBM Boot 
> manager. When I load the eCS install CD, it says disk 1 (40gb) reports 
> corrupt partiton table, and no changes can be made to this disc. I can not

> resize my JFS volume down 7mb to put the IBM Boot manager there, so thats 
> a no-go. When I use PartitionMagic 8 for windows, it reports no errors, 
> and many other tools also report no errors. Why wont the eCS LVM tool let 
> me install the IBM boot manager to this empty 7mb parition as I used to be

> able? Please help, unplugging the drives on reboot is getting very 
> annoying...
> 
Use DFSee to repar the partition table, that means repar CHS. It is XP
that does unwanted things to the partition table. When it is repaired 
anything will work.

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Tschau/Bye
Herbert

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