Thank you Aram; that was extremely Helpfull ... I will follow this process to make sure that things will work fine.
Sincerely, Nicola Musa On 3/4/07, Aram Yegenian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > guys, what nicola is asking is the FC2 bug when > anaconda messes with the partition table of the hard > disk and renders xp unbootable. AFAIK it wasn't a > fedora/linux/grub bug per se, windows just uses wrong > values for the lba and is quite insistent with that. > > i'm not sure if this bug is still there in FC6, maybe > they fixed it or maybe they don't consider it a bug to > begin with. > > anyways, here's a how to on how to fix it IF it > happens to you. the howto also includes preventative > steps so that you wouldn't have to fix it. all you > have to do is pass the correct lba parameters to > anaconda at install time. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/86835/ > > > --- Nicola Musa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes thank you sushi, > > I believe this is what the bug was all about back in > > FC 3.0 ; it used to > > install grub into the MBR and distroy the partitions > > table no matter what > > you do; Red Hat used to detect the existing > > partitions and then Grub will > > boot you into Windows (DOS) or RHEL. I wanted to see > > if someone has tried it > > but looks like I have to take the risk. Thank you > > for your cooperation. > > > > Sincerely, > > Nicola Musa > > > > > > On 3/4/07, Xushi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > So as not to lose your data, firstly resize your > > windows partition to > > > create some empty space. This can be (relatively > > safely) done with > > > PowerQuest PartitionMagic. > > > > > > When installing Fedora, ***MAKE SURE*** to install > > on those free > > > partitions, and leave the NTFS XP partitions > > intact. > > > > > > If the worst happens and you can't boot your XP OS > > anymore, the data > > > is still there, and all you need to do is stick > > the XP CD in the drive > > > and recover your MBR. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 04/03/07, Nicola Musa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > No Sir, > > > > I know how to Manually partition it and I used > > to do the Manual > > > partition. > > > > It used to work fine with RHEL 3.0 - 4.0 but > > when it came to FC 3.0 - > > > 4.0 it > > > > never worked. It used to distroy the partitions > > table for some reason. > > > did > > > > you try it? It's very critical that I do not > > loose the other operating > > > > system Issam. Thank you for your help in > > advance. > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Nicola Musa > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 3/4/07, Issam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > hmmm > > > > > I think you mean the opposite! Windows doesn't > > recognize any OS :-s . > > > > > Grub in general can detect other OS's, > > including wintoz. Maybe what > > > you > > > > > used to do while installing FC is to > > "Automatically partitioning". All > > > > > what you have to do is to select "Manually > > partition with Disk Druid". > > > > > After doing that, you can configure the boot > > loader. > > > > > Hope I understood your request correctly. > > > > > > > > > > Issam > > > > > > > > > > Nicola Musa wrote: > > > > > > Guys, > > > > > > I know how much you hate Windows and I know > > the moment you hear > > > > > > Microsoft you all get a Heart Attack > > however, I am running Windows > > > XP > > > > > > on my machine at home and I would like to > > run FC6. I haven't been > > > > > > playing with Linux for sometime now and I > > need to have my Windows > > > and > > > > > > I want to have FC6 running together at the > > same machine. I remember > > > in > > > > > > the past Fedora Core GRUB used to erase > > Windows when you install it > > > > > > after Windows rather than detect it and boot > > the two operating > > > > > > systems; was this issue resolved in FC6 ? > > I'm too scared to startup > > > > > > the Installation process. Anyone tried to > > Install FC6 after Windows > > > > > > that can tell me whether it worked fine or > > it hit the Drives table ? > > > > > > Thank you in advance. > > > > > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > > Nicola Musa > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > \/ushi - xushi.co.uk > > > /\ - socialprotest.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate > in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. > http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jolug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Jolug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
