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Problem: Fedora C4 on D410
Hi,
I just want to share some problem that I encountered with dual-booting my XP Pro with Fedora C4 on my D410.
I used Partition Magic to shrink the NTFS partition to make room for Fedora. (about 30GB)I installed Core 4 and use the Linux bootloader (GRUB?) to dual-boot XP and Linux defaulting to XP.
After a few weeks of use, I encountered a blue screen when starting XP complaining something about not able to locate hive files. I rebooted to the "Last Known Good Config.." and everything is fine.
About a couple of weeks later, I encountered the same error trying to boot to XP. Now both times I did a normal shutdown in XP. This time the "Last Known Good Config" didn't help. To make things worst, I cannot boot-up with the XP CD that comes with the laptop or for that matter any XP Pro CD. It will read the CD and say something about "Setup is reading..." then it goes to a blank screen and the CD spin down. I tried using XP setup disketted to boot but once it got to reading the CD, I get a blue screen with a "STOP" error.
Eventually, I have to boot with Win98 diskette and use FDISK to remove all partitions. I have since reinstall XP!
I just want to share some problem that I encountered with dual-booting my XP Pro with Fedora C4 on my D410.
I used Partition Magic to shrink the NTFS partition to make room for Fedora. (about 30GB)I installed Core 4 and use the Linux bootloader (GRUB?) to dual-boot XP and Linux defaulting to XP.
After a few weeks of use, I encountered a blue screen when starting XP complaining something about not able to locate hive files. I rebooted to the "Last Known Good Config.." and everything is fine.
About a couple of weeks later, I encountered the same error trying to boot to XP. Now both times I did a normal shutdown in XP. This time the "Last Known Good Config" didn't help. To make things worst, I cannot boot-up with the XP CD that comes with the laptop or for that matter any XP Pro CD. It will read the CD and say something about "Setup is reading..." then it goes to a blank screen and the CD spin down. I tried using XP setup disketted to boot but once it got to reading the CD, I get a blue screen with a "STOP" error.
Eventually, I have to boot with Win98 diskette and use FDISK to remove all partitions. I have since reinstall XP!
