On Fri, 21 May 2004 09:42:45 -0500 "Gaffey, Mike" <MGaffey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Situation ... > > 2 HD ... Disk A had fully functional Windows XP install i.e. been using it > for some time. > > Disk B was unpartitioned ... installed FC2 using all default options for the > GRUB boot loader > > I can boot to FC2 w/ no problems ... works perfectly ... if I choose XP when > prompted for which OS to load, I get 2 lines from GRUB and then it just sits > there until I power down. You're the first person i've heard mention the problem when installing on a second disk but this is a known problem. If your BIOS allows you to set the windows partition to LBA mode that might solve the problem. If not you need something like: sfdisk -d | sfdisk -H255 -f /dev/hda Checkout this bugzilla entry for the details: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980 > Also I get 2 choices for FC2 ... one has pms or psm on the end (can't > remember which) ... they both load fine, but I'm interested in what that > means as well. yeah SMP .. it stands for Symetric Multi-Processing which is a fancy way of saying it supports more than one CPU. Also useful for processors like later versions of the intel P4 which have Hyperthreading which is a bit like a second virtual processor. Cheers, Sean.
