New FC3 Install for Dual Boot w/ WinXP Fails After BIOS

[235u at comcast.net (eric)]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 13:59 -0800, Steven Erat wrote:
> Hi Grant,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.  Yeah, its my impression too that the MBR is hosed. 
> There was a similar problem with FC2 where you'd get the grub menu, but
> you couldn't boot Windows and reinitializing the MBR with fdisk wouldn't
> work. That issue turned out be fixable with a sfdisk command run while in
> rescue mode.
> 
> Now in FC3 I don't even get the splash screen grub menu.  Now I've done
> many other Red Hat installs on dual boot machines, never with the problems
> I've seen since Fedora.
> 
> Since there was an elegant solution to the FC2 issue about 2 or 3 weeks
> after the problem was widely publicized, I'm holding my breath that there
> might be another elegant solution for FC3 in the near future, before I try
> wiping the MBR.
> 
> I've truncated the config files off this reply, so see the first email or
> ask me to repost if anyone would like to see them again.
> 
> Thanks again.
> Steve


For what it's worth I poked around the fedora mail list but didn't find
much for your particular problem.  :(

-- 
D Eric Chadbourne
http://caffeinated.homelinux.net
has learned duel does not equal dual
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