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Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot?

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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."

7 of 608 comments (clear)

  1. It doesn't mess things up for everyone by draziw · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm running 2K on the first partition, and FC2 has the rest of the space. I did manual partitioning. I have no problem booting into 2K, or FC2 - works fine for me.

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  2. Re:Now by Phekko · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I honestly don't understand why parent is modded flamebait. Redundant I could understand, as everybody here knows this already, but not flamebait.

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  3. Re:Now by jayhawk88 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's called hypocrisy.

  4. The Verdict by jazman_777 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Fedora Core 2: DOA

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  5. Re:Now by LurkerXXX · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's not that Redhat did it on purpose. It was almost certainly an accident. The thing is, if it had happend on the MS end, Slashdot'rs would be screaming at the top of their lungs that it WAS on purpose, although it could easily be just an accident as with Redhat. Thye'd never believe it was an accident, and if MS fixed the mistake, they'd all pat themselves on the back that they'd forced MS's hand.

  6. It's not a bug... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's a FEATURE.

  7. No problem here by octal666 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm running a Fedora Core 1 and a WXP in this laptop and have no problem about that.

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