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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."

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  1. Who says... by NineNine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who says that Linux isn't ready for the desktop? I say, "of course it is!". I mean really... what's the big deal about a tiny little boot problem? I'm a better person just for having a machine, powered off, with Linux installed than I would be if I had W2K on a working computer.

  2. Unbootable? Bug? by potuncle · · Score: 0, Troll

    This sounds more like a feature than a bug. Kudos to Fedora for helping rid the world of those damn Windows viruses that are filling up my inbox. Also, since when is a computer considered unbootable just because it won't boot into Windows. Sounds like Ferodra is just makes computers a bit more discriminating.

  3. A fact people are ignoring by bonch · · Score: 0, Troll

    You can easily get the Windows XP bootloader to boot Linux if you so desire. I've done it before, complete with that nice text menu at the beginning. So even though XP writes the MBR, you can easily make it boot Linux.

    Meanwhile, Fedora is completely fucking things up.