Christopher Stone wrote:
Well, you probably should have done some more research into the bug
before installing Fedora. But just to play devil's advocate, if this
is such a major critical bug, then how come Microsoft hasn't "fixed"
their installer to recognize linux partitions? Do you same people
complain to Microsoft for not recognizing Linux????
On Wed, 26 May 2004 14:38:58 +0000, Roy Brown <brown_r@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Well, it looks like I hit the dreaded dual-boot bug. I hadn't
realized it affected Win2K in addition to WinXP. After failing to
boot into my Windows partition, I decided to give up on FC2. I
tried reinstalling my previous Linux (Libranet 2.8) in the hope
that it would fix the broken boot stuff. No luck. Then I tried a
"repair" with Windows...failure. Then I tried to reinstall Windows
from scratch (including deleting all partitions)...failure. Any
ideas what to try next? I just want a working Windows system
again. I didn't see anything about LBA mode in my BIOS options
(Albatron MB with i845PE chipset).
PS: this is an amazingly bad bug to let into a release. Is there
going to be a "fixed" version of FC2? I would have thought that a
bug this bad would have warranted pulling the release until it was
fixed. It doesn't just not install, it screws up your system. Was
this problem in FC2T3 or was it introduced in the final release?
To borrow my last response from another thread (A.K.A. I rest my case):
I won't debate whether FC is the best free distro available (OK, it's
the only one I've tried), but based on what I've seen on this forum,
that doesn't change my opinion that FC2 was rushed into distribution
before it was ready. Nor does it change the fact that I think (skill
of the current maintainers notwithstanding; I could never do what
they are) there is a basic flaw which will prevent Fedora from being
anything but a toy for the technically competent few who can work
around the kind of glitches that appear to exist in the latest
package.
Cheers,
Gordon Keehn
