Hi
Is it only Win XP that has the dual boot problem or Win 2K. The articles i have read seem to differ.
Marek Pawinski wrote:
Is it only Win XP that has the dual boot problem or Win 2K. The articles i have read seem to differ.
I have W2k + FC2 on three very different machines, and they all seem to work fine.
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:54:20PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Marek Pawinski wrote:
Is it only Win XP that has the dual boot problem or Win 2K. The articles i have read seem to differ.
I have W2k + FC2 on three very different machines, and they all seem to work fine.
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Someone needs to get to the bottom of this. FC2 screws up the disk geometry and it is hard to believe that Windows will still run on the same disk. Below is fix which is easy and works. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html
No lets be clear , Do you have windows and FC2 running on the same disk? Also on the disk with FC2 what does fdisk -l /dev/hd?? return? I would bet it returns that your disk has 16 heads not 255.
I am not trying to be difficult but as the url above explains there is a bug and and you are the second person who says they are running a Windows , FC2 double boot. I have seen the bug on our machines and it is hard to see how once FC2 is installed that Windows could run if the fix is not applied..
On Sat, 29 May 2004 16:27:16 -0500 akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
Aaron,
Someone needs to get to the bottom of this. FC2 screws up the disk
It's been solved. Fix will appear for installer at some point. Until then there is a perfectly good quick fix for anyone bitten by the problem.
geometry and it is hard to believe that Windows will still run on the same disk. Below is fix which is easy and works. http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html
No lets be clear , Do you have windows and FC2 running on the same disk? Also on the disk with FC2 what does fdisk -l /dev/hd?? return? I would bet it returns that your disk has 16 heads not 255.
I am not trying to be difficult but as the url above explains there is a bug and and you are the second person who says they are running a Windows , FC2 double boot. I have seen the bug on our machines and it is hard to see how once FC2 is installed that Windows could run if the fix is not applied..
A vast number of people have no problem with Dual boot after installing FC2 because their disks are already set to LBA mode. If your disk is set to LBA mode, you'll never notice a problem or have to think about it. This should take care of a large percentage of people trying to dual boot. The rest just have to enable LBA mode in the BIOS after-the-fact or run a quick fix that returns the CHS settings to 255.
The problem is really that windows seems to use LBA values for CHS even when the disk is not set to LBA mode. Therefore when Linux "corrects" the CHS values to the actual disk geometry it causes a problem for Windows which is expecting LBA style (Heads = 255) values.
HTH, Sean
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 17:39, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2004 16:27:16 -0500 akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
Aaron,
Someone needs to get to the bottom of this. FC2 screws up the disk
Uh, some one has! <snip>
I am not trying to be difficult but
Isn't there always a but(t)?!
Aaron, you seem to have an ax to grind, as every time this comes up you complain that some one needs to fix this. I've read lots of bugzilla reports on this topic, and didn't see your name anywhere?! do/did you by chance have anything useful to add? If not, STFU already! Now I don't mean to be difficult (is there an emoticon for tongue in cheek?), but really, enough is enough. If you lost data, I feel for you, but that's no one else's fault, not even if FC had wiped the drive clean!
Craig Thomas
Regarding this bug, it may happen or not, right ?, I mean, my notebook has XP Professional + FC2 and haven't seen any boot problem.
If I run Partition Magic it'll show me a warning related to this, but I don't care.
Regards, LU.
On Sat, 29 May 2004 19:22:29 -0300 limaunion limaunion@fibertel.com.ar wrote:
Regarding this bug, it may happen or not, right ?, I mean, my notebook has XP Professional + FC2 and haven't seen any boot problem.
If I run Partition Magic it'll show me a warning related to this, but I don't care.
That's right, most people won't ever be affected by this bug. That's why not many people reported a problem during the testing phase.
Cheers, Sean
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0400, Craig Thomas wrote:
Aaron, you seem to have an ax to grind, as every time this comes up you complain that some one needs to fix this. I've read lots of bugzilla reports on this topic, and didn't see your name anywhere?! do/did you by chance have anything useful to add? If not, STFU already! Now I don't mean to be difficult (is there an emoticon for tongue in cheek?), but really, enough is enough. If you lost data, I feel for you, but that's no one else's fault, not even if FC had wiped the drive clean!
Ok I'll byte. When you file a bugzilla it asks you to choose a program in which the bug appears. I am willing to learn. How to you file a bugzilla against the installer. Or how do you find an installer bug in bugzilla. Someone on the list says it depends whether LBA is turned on in the BIOS. I will check on that but I don't believe it since we have 3 machines exactly the and this problem does not occur on those without FC2 installed. But I am willing to check.
On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 09:37, akonstam@trinity.edu wrote:
Ok I'll byte. When you file a bugzilla it asks you to choose a program in which the bug appears. I am willing to learn. How to you file a bugzilla against the installer.
Anaconda is the installer's name.
Or how do you find an installer bug in bugzilla.
See above.
Someone on the list says it depends whether LBA is turned on in the BIOS. I will check on that but I don't believe it since we have 3 machines exactly the and this problem does not occur on those without FC2 installed. But I am willing to check.
I'm not sure what you are asking here? 3 machines that do _not_ have FC2 and have _no_ problem? or 3 machines with FC2 and boot problem?
Craig Thomas
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