Fix for the XP dual boot problem

Gerry Tool gstool at earthlink.net
Wed May 19 16:27:09 UTC 2004


Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004 08:54:48 -0400, Gene C. <czar at czarc.net> wrote:
> 
>>OK, the process which was posted to the mailing list may work to fix things
>>when they get screwed up.  However, I have used a different approach which
>>works for me ... don't let things get screwed up.
>>
>>When I install Fedora (and this has also happened with RHL at some times) and
>>the installer gripes that the partition table has errors, it is usually the
>>case that the disk was partitioned with LBA (and fdisk).  
> 
> 
> One thing I haven't gotten a good sense of... is everyone having
> problems with XP currently...getting an installer warning about
> partition errors before things go horribly wrong?  If people are
> ignoring warning messages, that is important information.
> 
> -jef"warnings what are they good for? absolutely nothin'...err i
> mean...ignore warnings at your own peril"spaleta
> 
> 
I had the problem, and I had the warnings, but those same warnings have 
been present in every install since RHL8 betas and on every FC test 
release.  The warning even says it can probably be ignored.

Gerry Tool





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