Dual boot FC2T2 and WinXP?

[Vincent]

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 08:49, Lutz Heinrichs wrote:
> Vincent wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 17:39, Matias Feliciano wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>$ man bootparam
> >>   The 'hd=cyls,heads,sects[,wpcom[,irq]]' options
> >>       These options are used to specify the physical geometry  of  the  disk.
> >>       Only  the  first  three  values are required. The cylinder/head/sectors
> >>       values will be those used by fdisk.  The write precompensation value is
> >>       ignored  for  IDE  disks.  The IRQ value specified will be the IRQ used
> >>       for the interface that the drive resides on, and is not really a  drive
> >>       specific parameter.
> >>  [...]
> >>   The 'hd=noprobe' option
> >>       Do not probe for this drive. For example,
> >> 
> >>              hdb=noprobe hdb=1166,7,17
> >> 
> >>       would  disable  the probe, but still specify the drive geometry so that
> >>       it would be registered as a valid block device, and hence usable.
> >>
> >>
> >>I don't know if this is useful but hope it's help. Try to set the same
> >>values as the BIOS.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Thanks but I cannot pull those numbers from the BIOS.
> >
> >Under IDE devices it has a few things
> >LBA mode: supported
> >Block mode: 16 sectors
> >LBA/Large: [AUTO]
> >DMA: [AUTO]
> >etc.
> >
> >But when I use F8 to get a somewhat verbose output i see it says 
> >LBA is disabled for hda but hdb (linux) has it enabled. I'm just
> >plain confused. I'll install FC 1 tonight and pray it catches the
> >right values.
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> I have a similar issue on my system. I'm trying to install FC2 test2 
> X86_64 on my new Athlon64 box. I have two HDs:
> Primary master on first IDE: Maxtor 120GB
> Primary slave on first IDE: Quantum 30GB
> 
> The system will only offer the 30GB drive for partitioning. That's fine 
> because I want to install there, but I need a boot loader on the 120GB 
> drive so I can dual-boot WinXP and FC2. When FC2 installs GRUB, it only 
> can put it on 'hdb' which is the 30GB. 'hda' is not an option.
> 
> I have set LBA to 'ON' for both drives, no change.
> I have tried "linux hda=noprobe hda=5883,16,255,0" to give the kernel 
> the geometry, no change.
> 
> I also tried installing GRUB on hdb, then extracting the boot block with 
> 'dd' into a file and referencing the file in WinXPs boot loader. If I 
> boot that entry, the screen reads "GRUB" and the system hangs (does not 
> continue boot process).
> 
> FWIW, this is a NFORCE3-150 board. Is there a known issue with the 
> NVIDIA controller?
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Lutz
> 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113201
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118941

I think these two bugs are the same but the ladder makes reference to
your 64 bit.