Status of XP Dual Boot Problem

[Jonathan Berry]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 17:13:19 -0800, Jon Savage <jonathansavage at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On the other hand, I understood no-one spotted the problems during the
> > FC2 development cycle, either.
> >
> > James.
> I think it was somehow related to 2.6 kernel.
> It was reported repeatedly during the test cycle but the actual
> fix/workaround came after the release of core 2 if memory serves.
[snip]

Yes, I recall too that it had to do with the 2.6 kernel.  Seems like I
read that it wasn't limited to just Fedora, but to any 2.6 kernel and
to the parted partitioning program.

What I want to know is when this problem manifests itself.  I have
installed FC2 on two dual boot machines without any problems and
without doing anything strange in the install.  Now, I did use fdisk
from a 2.4 kernel live cd to do the partitioning before I did the
install on at least one of them.  I installed over SuSE 8.2 on the
other one, and I don't think I changed the partitions on that one. 
Also, I know someone who did an setup with WinXP and FC2 installed on
seperate drives who did not report any trouble with it.  I got FC2
well after the release, but I assume that the FC2 isos have not
changed since then.

Does anyone know what it takes to cause this bug?
Is it related to upgrading from FC1?
Only when you install FC2 on the same HD as Windows?
Only if you use the installer to change the partitioning?
Some combination of these?

Jonathan