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Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot?
schwatoo writes "It seems Fedora Core doesn't like to boot alongside Windows 2K or XP. According to a bug first reported in February on Fedora's bugzilla site it has a tendency to chew up partition maps making it impossible to dual boot into Windows. No one seems to know quite what is causing the problem and a lot of people are ending up with unbootable machines."
Well who would?
All your partition are belong to us!
I can't believe how fucking retarded the whole x86 world is.
http://www.apple.com/powermac/
Stop buying overpriced x86 hardware.
I'm new here. Is this where I go into how much better Gentoo is?
;-)
Give it up man. *many* distros have got "bootloaders" down pat. This is just a bug, one I'm sure they're fix.
Besides Gentoo is *so* much better than Debian....
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
You got to know someone at M$ is pissed they never thought of it before.
I don't see why people are upset either. Fedora has provided its users with a wonderful feature: in addition to a bootable Linux system, Fedora will remove Windows the only way a real hacker would: by destroying it, in a way that leaves no doubt in the mind of that Windows install that it is unwanted, that it has been defeated, and the Fedora has vanquished it to the depths of /dev/null.
Fedora, I salute you.
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
Thanks a lot. We get an interesting topic and you had to go and look up the answer. I thought the whole point of slashdot was an understanding that none of us actually read the article, let alone find new material on the matter!
I am so disillusioned right now.
the fedora people should atleast put up some serious warnings in their install guides.
:)
I think a headline on the biggest news channel on the internet should serve as a good enough warning
Is the Dual Boot problem now on the other foot?
In the Microsoft world this would be considered a feature.
Wow, can you believe it?? People have different standards of conduct for convicted monopolists than they have for honest companies. And they're willing to cut a company that hasn't pulled this kind of crap before more slack than a company that makes a habit of it.
How crazy is that?</sarcasm>
I fail to see the problem.
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch
Its a special feature that removes security threats.
Hmm... So you're one of those anti-zealot zealots.
I'm trying to figure out what zealot-free system you'll be able to run...
Linux? right out.
Windows? Nope: OSS is "a cancer", DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
Sun? No, they were head ABM cheerleaders until a couple of weeks ago.
Apple? Obviously not.
Amiga? Nope: the OS was perfect in every way, only a conspiracy kept it down.
VMS? Ditto
OS/2? Ditto
BeOS? Ditto
*BSD? Maybe, but then again there's more than a few anti-viral license zealots
Netware? Possibly, but now they're in bed with SuSE.
Tandy TRS-80: That's the ticket. Nobody will admit to having used it, much less spew zealotry about it. What's more, you can pick up spare machines on ebay for a couple of bucks.
Perhaps you should grow a pony tail so you have something to hold on to when attempting to pull your head out of your ass.
I think a headline on the biggest news channel on the internet should serve as a good enough warning
When was this a headline on Yahoo?
Oh yeah, and when we get our asses dragged into court, let's tell them that if we allow Windows to boot by itself, without typing the machine code, that would cause the computer to run more slowly, just as removing Internet Explorer would do for Windows 98.
Oh yea 'cause FAT32 is so great since journalled filesystems suck, we should definitely allow our data to be lost due to power/system failure to avoid rare NTFS issues
Snowden and Manning are heroes.