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| Just wondering because I haven't seen it mentioned, if FC3 has the same
dual-booting issues that FC2 did with WinXP? I do run and need both on my
Dell laptop, which currently has FC1 and XP coexisting nicely.
Thanks for any info or leads...
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Dave
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| Randy Crawford 2004-11-28, 5:45 pm |
| dave wrote:
> Just wondering because I haven't seen it mentioned, if FC3 has the same
> dual-booting issues that FC2 did with WinXP? I do run and need both on my
> Dell laptop, which currently has FC1 and XP coexisting nicely.
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> Thanks for any info or leads...
I've not heard of the problem persisting in FC3.
If you upgrade your FC1 to FC3, you can avoid the problem anyway, since
you will reuse your existing partitions.
Worked for me, anyway.
Randy
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"Randy Crawford" <joe@burgershack.com> wrote:
> dave wrote:
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> I've not heard of the problem persisting in FC3.
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> If you upgrade your FC1 to FC3, you can avoid the problem anyway, since
> you will reuse your existing partitions.
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> Worked for me, anyway.
Thanks Randy, good stuff.
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Dave
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| towarzysz Vader 2004-12-02, 5:45 pm |
| Randy Crawford wrote:
> I've not heard of the problem persisting in FC3.
Here is the first one ;-)
I had WinXP+FC2 dualboot disk at IDE0. I have used WinXP boot manager to
handle the systems. Then I have bought a new HDD and plugged it into
IDE0 and the old one went to IDE1 (as master). Then I have installed FC3
on the first drive. Installer has added an entry "Other" into grub.conf
with the windows boot partition. But when I try to boot it - it stops at
chainloader +1 line. The only way to boot windblows (except some boot
floppy) is to change the boot disk setting in BIOS. Is there a solution
for this?
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| On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:13:51 +0100, towarzysz Vader wrote:
> Randy Crawford wrote:
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> Here is the first one ;-)
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> I had WinXP+FC2 dualboot disk at IDE0. I have used WinXP boot manager to
> handle the systems. Then I have bought a new HDD and plugged it into IDE0
> and the old one went to IDE1 (as master). Then I have installed FC3 on the
> first drive. Installer has added an entry "Other" into grub.conf with the
> windows boot partition. But when I try to boot it - it stops at
> chainloader +1 line. The only way to boot windblows (except some boot
> floppy) is to change the boot disk setting in BIOS. Is there a solution
> for this?
This is a MS Windows problem, not a Linux or Fedora problem. Try adding
the following to the "Other" (MS Windows) section of grub.conf.
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
This will make MS Windows believe it is installed on a HDD attached to
the primary IDE controller as master, and it should boot happily. Check
the grub docs for further details. -John
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