Fedora 2 and Win XP dual boot bug

[Jeff Vian]

Adam Antoniak wrote:

>Hi guys,
>I've been following this list for a while and know you guys rock. I made a
>fresh install of Fedora Core 2 yesterday and put GRUB into MBR (did it
>when installing Fedora 1 and experienced no problem) and experienced the
>well known bug. I'm not able to boot my XP anymore as the GRUB stops at
>'chainloader +1'. I'm sure my ntfs Windows partition is ok as I can
>access if from Fedora 2 (it works like a dream by the way).I googled for
>about an hour and found several suggestions to solve the problem. I'm
>curious of your opinion. Any commonly accepted fix? Looks like the problem
>with partition table and needless to say I'm unwiling to play with it
>unless it is really neccessary (loosing 40Gb of data in case
>something goest wrong doesn't sound good to me).
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The most common fix I have seen on this list is to set the bios 
parmeters for the affected drive to LBA instead of AUTO. It may or may 
not work. YMMV

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