Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 23, 2005 12:34 AM
You didn't lose anything. Installers corrupted only the redundant disk geometry information in the partition table thus some Windows weren't able to boot until the partition table got corrected or you set LBA in the BIOS. This wasn't a SUSE only problem but Mandrake, Fedora, Debian and anybody who had taken kernel 2.6 in use had this partition table corruption problem originally independently of the used filesystems. Partition table corruption could happen even if you prepartitioned the disk or used a 2nd one!
Unlike other vendors, SUSE actually published the problem, fixed it very quickly (it was included in SUSE 9.2) and also made it publicly available: <A HREF="http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_windows_not_booting91.html" title="suse.com">http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_win<nobr>d<wbr></nobr> ows_not_booting91.html</a suse.com>
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Re:You dont need a second HDD
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 23, 2005 12:34 AMUnlike other vendors, SUSE actually published the problem, fixed it very quickly (it was included in SUSE 9.2) and also made it publicly available: <A HREF="http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_windows_not_booting91.html" title="suse.com">http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhassel_win<nobr>d<wbr></nobr> ows_not_booting91.html</a suse.com>
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