[OT] winXP bug with FC3 LVM

Felipe Alfaro Solana lkml at mac.com
Thu Feb 10 22:38:39 UTC 2005


On 10 Feb 2005, at 23:13, Dale Sykora 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.

Ah! Sorry, I misunderstood your post :-)




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