Re: Re: Call for Discussion: Summary document concerning Prevention and Recovery of XP Dual Boot Problems

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster margo bijoux nom br>]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 20:04, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2004 18:45:23 -0400, Alan Cox <alan redhat com> wrote:
> > Looking in the BIOS is another way for many boxes. Also if you set the
> > bios to LBA that is reported by many to keep stuff happy
> 
> yes looking around... it seems using the bios to put the drive into
> LBA mode even
> comes up as a workaround for madrake's release.
> 
> -jef
> 
I have to add that this corrects the problem in , let's say , 99% of the
cases. However , sometimes it does nothing (here I had my drive set to
LBA after FC1.92 was installed and it didnt work. Then when core 2 was
released , the same bug appeared...)

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Pedro Macedo