Unusual behavior of Win2K when Linux partition added

Post #60,694 by dmarker 11/2/02 12:41:22 AM Reply	Unusual behavior of Win2K when Linux partition added I have P4 based system with 40GB & 60GB disks. a Year ago I had installed WinMe on C disk, Win2K on D disk & Linux Redhat on the 2nd half of the 2nd disk & use GRUB as the bootloader. This all worked great until last month when I decided to upgrade to RedHat 8 Having got RH8 in, my Win2K takes a very long time between the 1st startup screen (that shows a small window re establish network conn etc:) and the final started up screen. If I delete RH off the 2nd disk (turn the partition to free space) Win2K starts quickly, if I put RH back the slow start resumes. It is as if Windows is analysing the Linux partition ???. This behavior will happen no matter if I use GRUB or revert to std Win boot MBR. Anyone got any clues ??? Cheers Doug Marker
Post #60,715 by static 11/2/02 6:11:28 AM Reply	Partition marking? This tickles a memory of W2K trying to understand all the partitions it can see. Though I don't know why the older Linux partition wasn't causing this effect. I think there's something in W2K's disk administrator which could control something like this. Hmm. Doesn't RH8 default to ext3? What happens if it's an ext2 partition? Wade. "Ah. One of the difficult questions."
Post #60,802 by dmarker 11/2/02 8:11:20 PM Reply	Re: That may be it I am using the new format filesystem. Will try it with ext2 Cheers Doug (At one point I was getting a message about a partition needing checking but that went after another reinstall.
Post #60,825 by dmarker 11/2/02 11:52:15 PM Reply	Re: ext2 didn't help Still takes 2.5 mins after 1st start-up window & when the icons all appear. Very odd. Doug Marker

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