Serious reservations about FC2 release on 5/18

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Tue May 18 15:16:46 UTC 2004


Lucky You.  Until FC3T3 I could have said the same thing.

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Monday 17 May 2004 16:34, Michael Hatzel wrote:
> 
>>As far as I know, XP has never been supported using GRUBs chainloader +1
>>directive.  What I have always had to do is install grub on the first block
>>of boot, use dd to pull the first block of my /boot partition to a file
>>such as Linux.bin
> 
> 
> You know, I've been watching this whole thread with a certain amusement.  I 
> have dual-booted into various Windows flavors with impunity using GRUB in MBR 
> for a long time now. 
> 
> I have three boxes running XP.  One is Home and two are Pro.  My grub.conf 
> from this WinXP Pro notebook (Dell Inspiron 600m) (NOTE: The 600m 
> installation was kindof funky, but FC2T2 installed fine in text mode 
> (graphical was busted on the ATI M9 on this box), and was a scratch install: 
> I reinstalled XP into a small partition, then installed FC2T2):
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,2)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda6
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
>         root (hd0,2)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.332)
>         root (hd0,2)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.332 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.332.img
> title Other
>         rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>         chainloader +1
> 
> It Just Works.  Partition info:
> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1               1           5       40131   de  Dell Utility
> /dev/hda2   *           6        1049     8385930    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3            1050        1065      128520   83  Linux
> /dev/hda4            1066        7296    50050507+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5            1066        2370    10482381   83  Linux
> /dev/hda6            2371        3135     6144831   83  Linux
> /dev/hda7            3136        3266     1052226   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda8            3267        5877    20972826    b  W95 FAT32
> 
> 
> My home (not Home) box has Win2k and WinXP Pro both installed, as well as FC1 
> and WBEL 3.  All four boot fine, with GRUB in MBR.  GRUB only shows three OS 
> entries, though (I also have memtest there, but that's not an OS): FC, WBEL, 
> and Windows.  The chainload goes to XP's boot loader, from which I choose 
> WinXP or Win2k.  It's a Matsonic motherboard with an Athlon XP 1700 installed 
> (this particular mb, for those interested, is kindof unusual in that it can 
> have either SDR SDRAM _OR_ DDR SDRAM installed, just not at the same time.  
> The mother of all jumper blocks selects between; there's 36 or 72 jumpers to 
> be moved to do so.  I think it's an 8137+ mb.).  Oh, and it has a 200GB 
> Maxtor drive.  Updating to FC2 at some point in the near future.
> 
> Oh, It Just Works.
> 
> The third machine is an older Sony notebook with XP Home.  It also has FC1 
> loaded; GRUB in MBR, and It Just Works.





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