Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

From: Roberto Sanchez (rcsanchez97_at_yahoo.es)
Date: 12/16/04

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    Robert Parker wrote:
    > My son installed the next but latest Suse. It does just work so far as it is
    > concerned but it will give trouble if you are dual booting Windows. It leaves
    > the Windows partition unbootable because it rewrites the CHS record to
    > something Windows doesn't like. Likewise Fedora 2. Can't comment on the
    > latest Suse or Fedora I'm afraid.
    >
    > You can work around the above. Set up your partitions including initialising
    > the file systems using Mandrake + cfdisk. Then install the other distro.
    >
    >

    The problem was one with specific version of the 2.6 kernel. It has
    since been fixed. If you do a quick google search for it, you will
    find that there is a specific parameter you can pass at boot to the
    kernel so that it will not monkey with the hard disk geometry.

    -Roberto Sanchez 

    


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