I while ago I posted a question regarding a problem I was getting when installing FC2 in my double boot comp. The problem I had was that during the FC2 installation, a message box would pop up. It said that there were problems when reading the hard disk geometry, and it prompts you to either ignore or cancel the installation, and it says it is safe to ignore it. Well, I did, and after the installation completed I could not boot Windows!!.
Some people in the list told me to try a few things (like doing a fixmbr in the WinXP Recovery console or try other programs), but DON'T DO ANYTHING. By playing around and trying to fix it I actually screwed up the partition tables. Luckily for me I had most of my important stuff backed up in my comp at work. This problem is severe but it is easy to fix. Most important thing is not to panic. It happens that this is a very known bug in the Fedora Core 2 installation, and a friend sent me this link that has a very thorough explanation of the problem, and it says how to prevent it by doing something before installing, and also it explains how to fix it. http://www.fedorazine.com/content/view/191/ I tried the prevention steps and it worked perfectly :) I thought I should post this in case that you like to have the same distro the have in the labs at the Talmage(that was the topic of another thread I started in the non-newbie list). Maybe it would save someone a headache. Chris Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] ext. 1-3837 IS&T Web Applications Services Novell, Inc., the leading provider of information solutions http://www.novell.com >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/20/04 1:53 PM >>> I'm giving up on red hat 9 and trying fedora 2. I couldn't ever get red hat and windows to both work at the same time. I need XP for my games (icewind dale, baldur's gate, etc...) but that's about it, so the partition for XP is not too big. has anyone installed fedora 2 as a dual boot system with Win XP? any tips? Thanks, Alex __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
