FC2 ate my system

[Barry Yu]

Roy Brown wrote:

> Well, it looks like I hit the dreaded dual-boot bug.  I hadn't 
> realized it affected Win2K in addition to WinXP.  After failing to 
> boot into my Windows partition, I decided to give up on FC2.  I tried 
> reinstalling my previous Linux (Libranet 2.8) in the hope that it 
> would fix the broken boot stuff.  No luck.  Then I tried a "repair" 
> with Windows...failure.  Then I tried to reinstall Windows from 
> scratch (including deleting all partitions)...failure.  Any ideas what 
> to try next?  I just want a working Windows system again.  I didn't 
> see anything about LBA mode in my BIOS options (Albatron MB with 
> i845PE chipset).
>
> PS: this is an amazingly bad bug to let into a release.  Is there 
> going to be a "fixed" version of FC2?  I would have thought that a bug 
> this bad would have warranted pulling the release until it was fixed.  
> It doesn't just not install, it screws up your system.  Was this 
> problem in FC2T3 or was it introduced in the final release?
>
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My system is a multi -boot one: DOS, win98,xp,rh7.3,rh9,fc1,fc2 and the 
boot loader is bootmagic. After I had a clean fresh install the fc2 in a 
new partition out of the same hard drive 1, the partition magic warned 
me that some hard drive geometry stuff is wrong and asked if I want to 
fix it, and I clicked yes, now the win98 is not working any more! Even 
in that partition I format it and did a clean install from scratch, 
win98 still can't work! I don't know how to make it work again (I can't 
think of any other way that other than an installation with a complete 
format and then install from scratch). Other O/S seem still working 
normally.