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On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 08:03, David Kramer wrote: > I have very high hopes, but would love to hear from someone who has done it. > BTW, I expect to use a distro with 2.6 kernel, like SuSE 9.1 or Fedora Core 2 > (if I start hearing better things about dual booting with Windows) What I've been hearing is that the problem is an interaction between the 2.6 kernel and something in Windows XP involving drive geometry and LBA. Initial complaints were that "it's only Fedora Core 2", and that other distributions don't exhibit the problem, but apparently those "other distributions" were using the 2.4 kernel, and we're starting to see the same problem with Gentoo and Mandrake when they install with a 2.6 kernel. Also, the problem seems to occur when partitioning the drive; I've had no problems with Fedora 2 myself, but I've been reinstalling on machines that already ran earlier releases of Fedora and Redhat, and I don't bother repartitioning; I just keep the same partitioning I was already using. So my newest machine was partitioned under Redhat 9, and Fedora 2 works fine with it. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 307 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20040602/e4417853/attachment.sig>
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