On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 16:25, T. 'Nifty New Hat' Mitchell wrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:29:49PM -0400, Chiheb Djabri wrote:
> I'd like to know what doing to reinstall grub boot loader 'cause I
> have ton reinstall Windows Xp and I Know It will delete Grub from
> MBR
Why is is that you have to reinstall Windows?
One issue is solved by setting the disk
params to use LBA not AUTO in the BIOS.
Anyhow do some searching for the dual boot interactions
of Windows XP and FC2.
One rumor is that there is a bug in the way Windows set up the initial
partition map. Then other tools correct that error and... things
break. I am told that there is no data loss by this issue.
Summary:
if dual boot
and Windows XP with FC2
search the archives and bugzilla.
Alternatively, review the LWN article "Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows
play well together" here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/
Take note of the posts at the bottom indicating that this issue is not
limited to FC2, but may in fact affect any distro using 2.6 kernels.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz