Month: May 2004

Update on Fedora Linux dual boot bug …

From Fedoranews.org:

It turns out that the bug (#115980) is a result of a few subtle but key changes within the 2.6 kernel. A certain functionality with regards to hard disk geometry has been pulled out, as the kernel developers thought it would be better if userspace utilities took care of this instead. The Bugzilla bug is related to CHS geometry problems, which most likely stems from an error within the parted utility, addressing the BIOS incorrectly. It turns out that BIOS updates tend to fix problems for many users that have been bitten by this “bug”. On newer machines, this is basically non-reproducible.

A Captain returns …

Nick speaks to the students
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My baby brother, a Captain and CH-47 Chinook pilot in the 101st Airborne, took time out this week to drive ten hours to our home here in northeast Ohio and speak to the students of Center Street grade school in Mentor.

Nick was a student there from fourth through sixth grade and received a good number of letters from students during his stay in Iraq through a program created by teachers at the school, some of which he himself had during his time there.

Possible Fedora Core 2 and WinXP problem …

Bug# 115980: Cannot boot to WinXP after installing Fedora Core 2.

For those of you who are interested in creating a dual-boot system running both Fedora Linux and Microsoft Windows XP should wait to ensure that the above problem has been fixed in the FC2 release before installing.

Some users of Fedora Core Test 3 have noted that they are unable to boot into their Windows partition after install, due to a problem that may be GRUB related.

Otherwise, the torrent for Fedora Core 2 (“tettnang”) is now available.