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I've been running Arch for a few years, but I finally have a system where I want to dual boot Arch and Windows XP. This is a box that is a couple years old; Athlon 2400+ processor, etc.
I installed Windows XP and left a fair amount of room on my first hard drive (there are 2). I went to install Arch on the second hard drive, figuring I would try that, and started the normal installation process (not the ide-legacy); I auto-partitioned the 2nd hard drive; went back to boot. Big oops. For some reason the normal installation reversed the order of my drives, hda became hdb and vice versa. No data, so no biggie.
I went back and reinstalled Windows, then installed arch using the ide-legacy setup. Everything seemed to go fine, but when I reboot I get an error:
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM drive. Invalid partition table.
I figured I must have misconfigured something in grub, so I reinstalled again, same result. My partitions are hda1 (where windows is), hda2 (swap) and hda3 (arch - I had a boot partition the first time but got rid of that the second just to simplify things.) I installed grub on hda3.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious; why am I getting this partition table error?
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Ok, looks like at least part of the problem is that I had 2 partitions marked as bootable. Took one off and that error is gone. Windows still won't boot, but now at least Arch will.
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Could you please post your menu.lst
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