Dual-booting FC2 and WinXP: am I safe?

[Jim Cornette]

lwj wrote:

>>Since installing FC2, I've booted both FC2 and XP several times with
>>no apparent errors.  It's been so reliable that I'd not worried about
>>my hard drives until I read the article mentioned above.  Is it safe
>>for me to assume that I've managed to avoid the problem?  If so, did I
>>avoid it on accout of my dual hard drive setup, because I didn't
>>repartition my Linux hard drive, or perhaps on account of some more
>>mysterious reason?  :-)
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>>From what I understand, and my own personal experience, the problem
>either happens or it does not.
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>I think you are safe.
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I was upgrading a computer today and had to reinstall a corrupted boot 
loader, after the disk was ghosted. When I ran grub-install, I noticed 
option to grub on the help screen.

`--force-lba'
     Force GRUB to use LBA mode even for a buggy BIOS. Use this option
     only if your BIOS doesn't work properly in LBA mode even though it
     supports LBA mode.

My question is if running 'grub-install /dev/whatever --force-lba' would 
correct (or get by) the geometry problem? I encountered this problem 
earlier and got past the problem by setting the disk to LBA instead of 
auto mode. I was going to try the option tomorrow on the computer that 
had the problem. I just wondered if anyone has already tried this option 
to grub-install yet.

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