dual boot on fedora core 3

[Gordon Keehn]

johnberrisford at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

>Does anyone know if the dual boot with windows xp bug. present in kernel 2.6, has been fixed in the upcoming fedora core 3?
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>I am considering an upgrade from fedora core 1 and have a dual boot system with windows xp (partitions formatted in NTFS). I am a bit wary about upgrading and having to fix my master boot record to allow windows to work again.
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>Also, one thing I have not managed to work out from all the reports of this bug, does it effect a system if the linux installer does not make any changes to the partitions on the hard drive? i.e. when everything is already set up and only a clean install upgrade is being performed?  I don't want the installer to do anything other than format my current linux partition and install on this partition, this shouldn't effect the boot record should it?
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>cheers
>John
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>
    As long as you don't alter the existing partitions with parted, you 
should have no problem.  The problem (as I understand it) occurs when 
parted rewrites the partition table.  I used Partition Magic to set up 
partitions for FC2 on a machine already running Win XP, and it worked 
perfectly.  During the install, the Windows partitions were detected and 
grub was preconfigured for dual boot.
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn