FC1 to FC2 & GRUB & disk geometry

[Mike Westkamper]

An excellent article and I have done it.

There may, I repeat MAY, be a lingering problem in that the FC2 installer
reports that the partition table is wrong and you may suffer the hammers of
hell later.

Hopefully someone with greater knowledge about the installer has made a
change we could include to avoid it in the first place. If I knew how I
would gladly fix it and offer a patch.

Mike



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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Temlakos
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 10:58 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: FC1 to FC2 & GRUB & disk geometry


Follow this link:

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

titled "Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows Play Together."

It explains about the disk geometry, how to recover from a disk-geometry
change, and how to *avoid* it in the first place. *Everybody* should
file this as a permanent bookmark--it seems to me like good advice no
matter what you're trying to (re)install.

Temlakos

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 10:40, Mike Westkamper wrote:
> In a recent post I was looking for a bit of help with a FC1 to FC2
> installation problem.
> I ran amok of a "bug" in the FC2 installation where it alters the disk
> geometry in the partition table making subsequent use of GRUB fail in a
dual
> boot situation. I have a bunch to do and recovering from this is a major
> headache.
>
> Is there a "fix" around that I could put on the Installation CD that would
> avoid the problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mike
>
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