[ltp] R40 - problems with double boot

[Michelle Klein-Hass]

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:04 am, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> On Tue, 18 May 2004, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:

> > Would using FAT32 instead of NTFS sidestep this problem?
>
> No, the problem is filesystem independent. For example since Fedora users
> don't have NTFS support at all, they blamed GRUB -- also incorrectly,
> AFAIK. So it do happen also with FAT32. No need to resize or anything,
> just modifying the partition table on 2.6 kernels (apparently by parted or
> libparted based partitioning tool) can make Windows unbootable. E.g. if
> you create a root and swap partition on an unallocated space.
>
> Please note, this bootability problem doesn't happen on all computers but
> only some percent of them.

Ouch! Can you opt to use a 2.4 kernel under SuSE?
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