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I had this problem I saw on one of the forums the way to fix it was to change the access method for the hard disk in the BIOS. Changed it to LBA then it worked fine.... haven`t a clue why this works..... Now, If i knew that before I trashed my XP partition that would have been helpful :-)I have now installed Fedora Core 2 on two PC's at work and one at home. No problems so far but be aware that dual-booting with MS XP (not sure if its only XP) has MEGA problems. It seems that grub trashes the master boot record in some way and causes it to become impossible (without some serious fiddling) to boot XP. For the PC which had XP on it...it now doesn't! I couldn't be bothered with trying to get it to dual-boot so just let it install FC2 over the whole disk.
In that respect I am surprised they released FC2 unless it simply wasn't a known problem during testing. Hopefully the problem will be fixed and patched so that people can install FC2 without writing the MBR; download the patches and then write it (with grub).
For the moment I would say that if you are not dual-booting then FC2 is worth trying, but if you need to dual-boot then be very much aware of the MBR/grub problem.
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