Bug 428547

Summary:	Fedora 8 installation on a system with existing NTFS partition causes problems
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jussi Eloranta <eloranta>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8
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Description Jussi Eloranta 2008-01-13 03:06:46 UTC

Description of problem:

Installation of Fedora 8 on a system with an existing NTFS partition (Mac Pro
with EFI; triple boot Linux/MacOS/Windows XP; this is an intel based system)
modifies the NTFS partition type to "unknown" type (hex C0 - I recall) and
Windows fails to boot after this. I changed the partition type with fdisk back
to NTFS and everything worked again. So, somehow, anaconda changed the partition
type during Linux (Fedolra 8 / 64bit) installation.

I have not tried if this happens on regular BIOS based PCs.

Comment 1 Andy Lindeberg 2008-06-03 17:35:41 UTC

Have you been able to reproduce this error in Fedora 9?

Comment 2 Jussi Eloranta 2008-06-03 20:02:53 UTC

Sorry.. cant' test it any more. I got so frustrated with mac and windows that I
have removed them from my computers.