On Tuesday 01 June 2004 04:16, Max K-A wrote: > + Solution for the windows dual-boot problem This would probably work if you already nuked your Windows disk partition table. What I did was, after reading about all the problems with this and BEFORE I attempted any sort of install with FC2 since I had gotten the "partition table alignment" message which caused me to abort immediately, was that I booted up with a Knoppix 3.4 CD (using the Debian 2.6 kernel, but you can use the 2.4 kernel for this step) to get a root prompt, did # cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry ... (your Windows disk might be a different hard disk!) then wrote down what it said for the "logical" geometry, e.g.: physical 16383/16/63 logical 7752/240/63 Then, I booted up the Fedora install disk into the install with: linux hda=7752,250,63 (NOT the numbers I used, btw - YMMV) ... and it worked like a charm, installing the boot loader to the MBR so that GRUB gets control at the beginning. Note that to be able to finally boot, each time the partition table is changed, the BIOS bootsector virus protection has to be disabled, but only once. The next boot, you can re-enable it. Whoever is the FAQ maintainer might want to consider putting this solution in, also... this preventitive solution is preferable to the solution outlined in the FAQ that works if you are recovering from an already nuked partition table. HTH
