[Lvlug] Fedora Core 2 dual boot issue

[James Skow]

dave at morrisette.net wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>Ran into a Fedora Core 2 issue today.
>
>Installed Fedora Core 2 on a machine dual booting with MS XP Pro.  Fedora booted
>fine after install, however when selecting XP Pro from grub screen, just got the
>grub boot instructions dumping to screen.  XP would not boot.
>
>Fix was to tell the boot disk to use LBA in the bios setup. There is a deeper
>explaination to this on the web.   
>
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4896
>
>David 
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I had the same problem. All you have to do is boot the 1st Fedora Core 2 
CD and go into rescue mode once there, do this:

sfdisk -d /dev/hda > mypartitiontable.txt [press enter]
cat mypartitiontable.txt | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda [press enter]

It will then re-write the MBR. The you can reboot back to GRUB, and 
Windows should boot normally (at least, it did for me).