[plug] Fedora Core 2 and dual booting Windows

[Michael Collard]

The way I prevent this is by using 'readonly=1' as a kernel option for
installing :)

Regards
Michael Collard

On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 15:31, Ben Jensz wrote:
> This is just a heads up to anyone out there who may put Fedora Core 2 
> onto a machine they are wishing to dual boot with Windows.
> 
> There is a problem in the installer that modifies the hard disk geometry 
> in the partition table incorrectly.  Basically what happens is that it 
> modifies it in such a way that it doesn't bother Linux... but very much 
> so does bother Windows (in that it won't boot at all).  It is a problem 
> with the anaconda installer and not grub.  LWN have an article about the 
> problem here:  http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/
> 
> I strongly recommend anyone who is going to setup Fedora Core 2 to dual 
> boot with Windows reads that article first, as there is a way to prevent 
> the installer from buggering it all up in the first place.
> 
> 
> / Ben
> 
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