Serious reservations about FC2 release on 5/18

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Gerry Tool wrote:

> Not necessarily true.  I ran into this problem installing FC2Testx 
> onto an already existing Linux partition, installing GRUB onto the 
> boot record for that partition, leaving the MBR alone under control of 
> another linux partition.  After the install, I added the new boot 
> information to the controlling grub.conf and could boot to everything 
> except windows XP which was still an entry in the previously existing 
> grub.conf.  I could not find a way to resurrect windows XP, so ended 
> up reinstalling it.
>
> Anthony DeStefano may have pointed out a fix - first one I've heard - 
> to change the BIOS to forced LBA rather than Auto.  I hope someone 
> else who has this happen to them can confirm that.
>
I've run into this bug when test 3 was released. I was having some 
issues with my computer which made me believe that the hard disk was 
failing , so I always had the option to reinstall windows.. I tried to 
configure the disk on the bios to use LBA , but it didnt work at all.. 
Looks like only in a few cases this setting solves the problem.. Here , 
I solved this by installing FC2t3 on hdb , removing hdb , installing 
windows in hda , putting hdb back on system and then installing grub in 
hda and reconfiguring it... Which was a PITA to do , but at least I got 
my system to work..
The interesting thing is that in the bug report some people say that 
this happens only with 120Gb+ disks.. This happened to me with one 40Gb 
and two 80Gb disks...

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Pedro Macedo