Dual boot FC2T2 and WinXP?

[Vincent]

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 15:36, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 02:39:33AM +0200, Matias Feliciano wrote:
> >        Do not probe for this drive. For example,
> >  
> >               hdb=noprobe hdb=1166,7,17
> >  
> >        would  disable  the probe, but still specify the drive geometry so that
> >        it would be registered as a valid block device, and hence usable.
> > 
> 
> Don't do this with hard disks, the probe is essential for any usable ATA
> 
> > I don't know if this is useful but hope it's help. Try to set the same
> > values as the BIOS.
> 
> Partition with a working system (eg Fedora FC1 install disk), then install
> and don't touch the partitions at all in FC2test2. 
> 
Already tried this with FC1:
"The partition table on device hda was unreadable to create new
partitions it must be initilized, causing the loss of ALL DATA on this
drive.
This operation will overide any previous installation choices about
which drives to ignore.
would you like to initilize this drive, erasing ALL DATA?"

HDA is not linux so that causes a problem. When installing FC2 (first time)
I did not change the partitions at all, I left them as they were in
FC1 but I had to format them or I could not continue install. I
was told not to do upgrades with test releases and any other option
requires a format doesn't it?