I am trying to turn my PC into a dual-boot system with MythTV and Windows XP.

I have 2 hard drives that are SATA formated to NTFS for Windows XP. I have 2 other drives, one SATA and the other IDE. My motherboard has 4 SATA plugs and 1 IDE plug (my DVD drive and IDE HDD are connected to that).

When I try to do a manual install of Knoppmyth using the latest ISO download, the non-NTFS SATA drive and the IDE drive both report that they are read-only.

When I boot into XP, I can format them using partition magic just fine. I have formated them to NTFS and copied files to test them, and tried to format them thru the Knoppmyth CD again with the same error. I unallocated them in PMagic, same error in Knoppmyth CD. I formatted them to ext2, same, ext3, same. I do not know what is going on.



Here is all of the hardware information:

Motherboard: Intel D915GAG

NTFS SATA Drive 1 (XP Pro): WDC WD1200JD-22HBC0 (120GB)

NTFS SATA Drive 2 : (not connected at this time, awaiting extra SATA cable)

SATA Drive for MythTV: Maxtor 6L250S0 (250GB)

IDE Drive for MythTV (master): Maxtor 98196H8 (80GB)

IDE DVD Drive (slave): Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D

Checked the jumpers on the drive and they are set for Master, and the DVD drive is set to Slave.

I ran Partition Magic and made the partitions myself, then ran the Knoppmyth CD again. I configured my install with username and passwords, and got the following error...


Starting Knoppmyth Installation
Error: Formatting of failed. (there are 2 spaces between 'of' and 'failed')

Hi MacHarborGuy,

You didn't mention (or I missed it) the type of install. Serial drives are "different" so I have always had to do the install as manual. Even then it is sometimes tricky to get lilo to write properly. With dual boot, lilo.conf will most likely pickup a bogus line that starts with "Part:" delete or # it out.

Linux an NTFS don't do well from what I read. You may want to make a fat32 partition to share data / files between M$ and KM

Mike

I'm still a linux newbie and trying to figure out stuff but I ran into a similar problem... I realized that I didn't select a drive by pressing space when I was installing. It's just a thought.