Serious reservations about FC2 release on 5/18

[Anthony DeStefano]

Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 18:52, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> 
> 
>>  Regressions happen.  It's not good, but they happen.  Think of it this
>>way...someone new to Fedora Core installing FC2 making a dual boot
>>system out of a previously Windows XP system is going to have problems. 
> 
> 
>   I meant to add to this that someone who already has a dual boot system
> with Windows XP / FC1 is not going to have the problem, as you noted in
> your original post.

Actually I can vouch that this is not true.  I had Core 1 on hdc with XP 
living on hda1 and grub from Core 1 happily booting both OSes.  I 
installed core2test3 over core1 and it wouldn't allow me to boot XP.  My 
workaround was to go into the BIOS and hard set it to LBA mode instead 
of AUTO.  That allowed me to boot into XP.

Also, I didn't do any repartitioning.  Just formated the partitions on 
hdc that held the core1 install and used the same layout for the 
installation of test3.

-- 
Anthony DeStefano
destefan at vaxcave.com