Grub + DualBoot + ChainLoader

[Andrew Farris]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 15:46 +0200, Chris Chabot wrote:
> You have just experianced this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980
> 
> The good news is that you can fix it by running this command in linux 
> (either boot straight to linux if that works, or use the rescue cd):
> sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread --force -H255 /dev/hda
> 
> IMHO this is why FC2 should be recalled or atleast re-released with a 
> fix or refusal to install when this bug hits; Because what a nice 
> introduction to linux it is "We blow your shit up!"

Recalled, no (overkill).  However, it should be more prominently
acknowledged -- fedora.redhat.com should have direct mention of this bug
specifically because of that new user mentality -- it broke things or
caused data loss.  For most average computer users, not even to mention
complete beginners, data is gone when they cannot get the OS to start.
And FC2 is at at fault.

> I bet most people fall in the silent majority category, who never find 
> their way to the mailing lists and just think "A so thats how 'well' 
> linux works, it wrecked my computer and caused me to loose all my data.. 
> Use linux? Naaahhhhh"

Yes, it undoubtedly effects more users than those that get help -- how
many adventurous, would-be linux advocates have reformatted their
Windows boxes due to not being aware of this single line fix?

-- 
Andrew Farris, CPE senior (California Polytechnic State University, SLO)
fedora at andrewfarris.com :: lordmorgul on irc.freenode.net