After FC3 installation, WinXP CD Setup hangs at "Setup is inspecting your computer's hardware configuration"

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:28 +0800, Didier Casse wrote:
> Hi all,
>          I install FC3 dual boot with Windows on a laptop. I noticed
> that grub can't boot the WinXP partition and the things which sucks
> more is that the WinXP CD Setup hangs at "Setup is inspecting your
> computer's hardware configuration" and shows a black screen.
> 
> It never happened previously. I did that on my friend's laptop and he
> can't live w/o windows.
> What's wrong and how to solve this problem?
> 
> I suspect that I have to "fixboot" with the Windows recovery console.
> But no Windows CD wants to boot now. And my friend's laptop has no
> floppy drive.
> 

This may be a result of the early bug with FC where the drive geometry
is read differently with Windows and Fedora.  Check out fedorafaq.org