Re: [RFC] Restoring HDIO_GETGEO semantics

From: Szakacsits Szabolcs
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 20:09:43 EST



On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Anthony Ewell wrote:
>
> By any chance is the the same bug that is causing FC2's installer
> to trash dual booting to Windows?
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115980
>
> If it is, it is causing an ever living nightmare out in the FC2
> world. The above link has zillions of painfully documented
> technical experiences, with work-a-rounds, that may help in
> troubleshooting this problem. I personally am holding off on
> upgrading to FC2 until bug 115980 is fixed: I can not afford to
> get my Windows partitions trashed (I know, the partition are okay,
> I just can not boot to them).
>
> If not, maybe bug 115980 will have something else of help.

Yes, Fedora, SUSE, Mandrake, new Debian install, etc virtually everybody
has this problem but since there are many bugs in parted it manifests
different way so it's indeed pretty confusing (people look for _the_ bug
but there are many).

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_windows_not_booting91.html
https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7959

Szaka

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