[OT] winXP bug with FC3 LVM

Dale Sykora dalen at czexan.net
Thu Feb 10 22:13:25 UTC 2005


Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:

> On 10 Feb 2005, at 22:00, 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.
> 
> 
> I don't want to sound rude, but shouldn't you complain Microsoft about 
> this? It seems that Windows XP is also weak in trying to cohabit with 
> other operating systems.
> 
Felipe,
	This was not meant to be a complaint, just an FYI.  I posted it for 2 
reasons.  1) because I could not find any info about this with google 2) 
I think this may be useful to atleast some on this list who might 
rebuild or move a FC3 disk to winXP from time to time.

Thanks,

Dale






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