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
