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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