Serious reservations about FC2 release on 5/18
Sean Estabrooks
seanlkml at rogers.com
Sun May 16 22:03:19 UTC 2004
On Sun, 16 May 2004 16:19:01 -0500
Confushion <confushion at comcast.net> wrote:
> A very serious bug exists which can render dual-boot Windows XP
> installations inoperable. The problem has been discussed in other
> threads here on this list, and can be found in bugzilla, so I won't go
> over it in more detail. Please see bugzilla bugs 120128 and 115980.
> This problem happens on my hardware even if the harddrive is wiped, and
> a fresh Windows XP install is performed before FC2-test3.
> I know about this problem because I experienced it first hand in
> FC2-test3. The only way I've found to work around it is to install
> Windows XP, then FC1, and finally do an UPGRADE to FC2-test3. Something
> is just plain not right with the FC2 "from scratch" installation
> process. This problem did NOT exist in FC1!
This is actually a bug in Windows XP, please forward your concerns to
Microsoft asking them the correct procedure to dual boot with Linux. :o)
Cheers,
Sean
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