On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 18:24 -0800, Charles Malespin wrote: > Hi, so I just bought a dell computer with XP installed on it already. > I also bought a Fedora 2 reference book that had a DVD with FC2 etc so > that I can run a dual boot. I just found out about the problem that > comes up when you try and run Fedora and XP together, but I cant get a > straight easy way to fix this problem. I tried to burn the FC2 rescue > CD and boot from that, but it just tells me "missing OS" and doesnt do > anything from there. I have also seen that if you just go ahead and > boot and load FC2 that after you can run something like > # sfdisk -d /dev/hda | sfdisk --no-reread --force -H255 /dev/hda > and then it will work again. Any help would be useful, I am JUST > starting with linux so the easier the better The definitive answer to this problem can be found at: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00908.html This is linked from the FC2 FAQ, which is well worth reading: http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc2/ Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
