Grub!!!

[Marc Schwartz]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 16:25, T. 'Nifty New Hat' Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:29:49PM -0400, Chiheb Djabri wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to know what doing to reinstall grub boot loader 'cause I
> > have ton reinstall Windows Xp and I Know It will delete Grub from
> > MBR
> 
> Why is is that you have to reinstall Windows?
> 
> One issue is solved by setting the disk
> params to use LBA not AUTO in the BIOS.
> 
> Anyhow do some searching for the dual boot interactions
> of Windows XP and FC2.
> 
> One rumor is that there is a bug in the way Windows set up the initial
> partition map.  Then other tools correct that error and... things
> break.  I am told that there is no data loss by this issue.
> 
> Summary:
> 	if dual boot
> 	and Windows XP with FC2
> 	search the archives and bugzilla.


Alternatively, review the LWN article "Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows
play well together" here:

http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/

Take note of the posts at the bottom indicating that this issue is not
limited to FC2, but may in fact affect any distro using 2.6 kernels.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz