[OT] winXP bug with FC3 LVM

[Giulio Sorrentino]

Dale Sykora wrote:

> Giulio Sorrentino wrote:
>
>> Dale Sykora wrote:
>>
>>> I thought I would post this here as it appears related to FC3 
>>> (although it appears a winXP bug) and this may be useful to some.  
>>> If you have a system with FC3 and LVM and then you try to boot and 
>>> install winXP, the winXP setup will lockup with a blank screen after 
>>> the "Setup inspecting ..." message.  If you reboot with Linux, 
>>> delete the partitions, and reboot with winXP, winXP setup works 
>>> normally.
>>
>>
>>
>> It's sound similar to hard disk's geometry bug: I've read of people 
>> that had it even with FC3.
>> Try to check partition's geometry next time.
>>
> Giulio,
>     I'm not sure what the root cause is, but I have noticed this on 2 
> systems.  One is an amd64 MSI K8N Neo 2 with 160GB sata drives.  The 
> other system is a p4 HP tc2120 with 18GB scsi drives.  Because of this 
> variety of hardware, I suspect it is just a winXP bug that shows up 
> when an LVM partition is found.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dale

The problem that I mentioned is explained on: http://lwn.net/Articles/86835
Fedora alter the table partition with wrong values, windows expects a 
sane table partition so hang.


So the next time, try to check the integrity of partitions (i've 
corrected the options of my e-mail client).