Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot?

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Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday May 23, 2004 @04:27AM from the nobody-noticed-that? dept.

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."

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dfg by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 04:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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pff, CLEARLY on topic. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 04:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

nasijdif? duh!
Re:Now by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 04:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Bzzzt!!!

Try again retard.
Re:Now by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 04:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Just because you (crazy AC) agree with his statement doesn't mean it wasn't intended to incite a flame-war.
Re:It doesn't mess things up for everyone by caluml · 2004-05-23 04:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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Re:Now by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 04:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Just because you (crazy AC) disagree with my statement doesn't mean it was intended to incite a flame-war.
Offtopic but what the heck by tomstdenis · 2004-05-23 04:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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!

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1. Re:Offtopic but what the heck by Ann+Elk · 2004-05-23 04:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  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 by hdparm · 2004-05-23 05:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

World domination!
Re:Now by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-23 06:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Try again retard.

Artie, is that you?