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."

Comments

Re:It doesn't mess things up for everyone

[caluml]

friend... her

Come on, now we can't take anything you said seriously

Offtopic but what the heck

[tomstdenis]

Who wants to dual boot into windows anyways? I recently got my laptop back from the manufacturer only to find out that Gentoo works fine on it but Windows [XP SP1 + all new patches] has troubles working with PowerNOW! clock throttling [repeated hangs]

I'm glad I made the devision 10GB/50GB [winxp/gentoo] cuz I'd hate to think about wasting any more resources on WinXP. If my job didn't require access to a WinXP box I'd just fdisk it out ;-)

BTW: If anyone owns a Compaq 2180CA and wants to get gentoo going on it... um good luck. APIC doesn't work and ACPI causes interesting bugs [like you have to read from /dev/psaux to get the keyboard to respond....]. Though after some hacking [I had to "break" cpufreq a little to get it to detect a working PST] I've managed to get Gentoo working happily with all my hardware on the laptop.

Anyways... ya windows sucks. Boo windows!

Re:Offtopic but what the heck

[Ann Elk]

You ask:

Who wants to dual boot into windows anyways?

Then you proceed to answer your own question:

If my job didn't require access to a WinXP box I'd just fdisk it out ;-)

WTF?

Finally

[hdparm]

World domination!