thoughts on the winXP boot bug

Kepa Lyman kepa at oceanvoyages.com
Tue Jun 22 20:38:20 UTC 2004


So after successfully convincing my boss to allow me to install linux at work 
on a dual boot machine, I did so this week.  Guess what?  The infamous (that 
I am now newly aware of) win XP dual boot bug rears its ugly head!  Now I'm 
in trouble for screwing up a windows computer that other people need, and the 
case for linux at work has just recieved a nail in the coffin... So I get to 
try to fix this on my own time, thank you fedora, and just hope that in the 
far off future I can try again with fedora core 10 or something...

I mean, JESUS CHRIST, how can such a show-stopping bug be allowed in a full  
release?!  If people are going to be migrating away from windows and giving 
linux a try, is it wise to trash their computers?!  Now I have to become an 
expert on disk repair so I can fix the stupid thing.

Of course, I'm happy to use FC2 and say hasta la vista to windows xp 
forever...  but back in the real world, we still need windows.

Kepa





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