From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Re: Linear mode: array size is less than sum of sizes Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:33:12 +0000 Message-ID: <4B452BC8.5030103@anonymous.org.uk> References: <4B439BC8.1030908@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alessandro Baretta Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 06/01/2010 22:14, Alessandro Baretta wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:06 PM, John Robinson > wrote: >> [...] If you're going to do this I can't help thinking you should >> duplicate the real partition table, showing the partition starting on sector >> 63, so you want 63 extra sectors, not 16002. [...] > You were right. No way to get the Windows bootloader to even try > starting up Windows unless the windows partition is exactly at the > safe offset from as it is in the original drive. I had a feeling it might; I think there's another copy of the partition description inside the partition somewhere, at least involved in the boot process. Not sure though. You may also have problems if you don't have the right drivers to match the virtual environment in your Windows startup. Anyway, you could still have a go at concatenating two partitions with dmsetup. Cheers, John.