Serious reservations about FC2 release on 5/18

Florian Bachmann florian_bachmann at t-online.de
Sun May 16 23:51:58 UTC 2004


Confushion schrieb:

>Folks,
>
>Fedora Core 2 supposedly is about to be released.  
>
>A very serious bug exists which can render dual-boot Windows XP
>installations inoperable.  The problem has been discussed in other
>threads here on this list, and can be found in bugzilla, so I won't go
>over it in more detail.  Please see bugzilla bugs 120128 and 115980. 
>This problem happens on my hardware even if the harddrive is wiped, and
>a fresh Windows XP install is performed before FC2-test3.  
>I know about this problem because I experienced it first hand in
>FC2-test3.  The only way I've found to work around it is to install
>Windows XP, then FC1, and finally do an UPGRADE to FC2-test3.  Something
>is just plain not right with the FC2 "from scratch" installation
>process.  This problem did NOT exist in FC1!
>
>  
>
A quick fix would be to install GRUB into the boot block of the hard 
disk partition that
holds the /boot directory instead of the MBR.  You can then dump the 
GRUB boot sector
to a file and use the Windows XP boot loader to boot into linux.

Regards





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