Windows XP Pro & FC2 - XP won't boot
Sean Estabrooks
seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Fri May 21 14:50:47 UTC 2004
On Fri, 21 May 2004 09:42:45 -0500
"Gaffey, Mike" <MGaffey at fastekintl.com> wrote:
> Situation ...
>
> 2 HD ... Disk A had fully functional Windows XP install i.e. been using it
> for some time.
>
> Disk B was unpartitioned ... installed FC2 using all default options for the
> GRUB boot loader
>
> I can boot to FC2 w/ no problems ... works perfectly ... if I choose XP when
> prompted for which OS to load, I get 2 lines from GRUB and then it just sits
> there until I power down.
You're the first person i've heard mention the problem when installing
on a second disk but this is a known problem. If your BIOS allows
you to set the windows partition to LBA mode that might solve the
problem. If not you need something like:
sfdisk -d | sfdisk -H255 -f /dev/hda
Checkout this bugzilla entry for the details:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980
> Also I get 2 choices for FC2 ... one has pms or psm on the end (can't
> remember which) ... they both load fine, but I'm interested in what that
> means as well.
yeah SMP .. it stands for Symetric Multi-Processing which is a fancy
way of saying it supports more than one CPU. Also useful for processors
like later versions of the intel P4 which have Hyperthreading which is a
bit like a second virtual processor.
Cheers,
Sean.
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