Serious reservations about FC2 release on 5/18
James W. Bennett
silverhead at comcast.net
Mon May 17 00:22:00 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 17:17, Confushion wrote:
> Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> > And the sky is falling, too. These threads are getting old.
>
> I would say the sky is falling for the user when their previously
> working Windows XP partition as completely unbootable. I have not seen
> any fix short of wiping the partition table and losing the existing
> Windows XP partition. Yes, the sky is falling for that user. It's not
> just one or two people here, and it will be a significant number when
> the release goes live, if it has not been fixed.
>
> If Microsoft released an upgrade for Windows that broke Linux
> installations in the same way, I think we know what the reaction would
> be. Why shouldn't we strive to at least be better than Microsoft?
>
> > I seriously doubt dual boot systems are a priority for Red Hat, nor
> > should they be. A dual boot system, in principle, is a transition
> > configuration that need not be well supported in every release. And
> > even as a transition, it's not a requirement for the majority of
> > installations. Keep a separate Windows box (or boxen) around handle
> > the Windows-only requirements.
>
> I guess we disagree there. I see your viewpoint as being very elitist
> and short-sighted. There are lots of reasons why a person would want to
> be able to boot both Windows XP and FC2 on a single box.
>
> My main concern is this problem did not exist in FC1. Let's go over
> that again, since I've seen some people post that this is a Windows XP
> bug. THIS PROBLEM DIDN'T SHOW UP IN FC1.
>
> Something has changed in this release which has caused the problem.
> Many users have already been affected. The impact of this problem is a
> user ending up in a situation where they will not be able to get back
> into the Windows XP partition without some serious headaches. I have
> not yet seen any solution presented for the problem, but I'd appreciate
> a link if you know of one. I certainly looked around when I was hit
> with this about a week ago.
>
> Cheers,
> Confushion
The best way around this is to not let grub install the boot record on the windows partition.
I always install the grub boot record on a floppy disk. Now during the
install of FC2 select to install on first linux partition. Likely it may not
boot but you can do a linux rescue and then install grub on a floppy disk.
I do not let it install on the windows boot record.
This comes from experience.
--
James W. Bennett <silverhead at comcast.net>
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