Bug 207208

Summary:	Installing FC6test3 corrupted Windows XP Pro's bootloader?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Luke Hutchison <luke.hutch>
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6
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Description Luke Hutchison 2006-09-19 21:55:55 UTC

I just installed FC6test3 on a laptop that already dual-booted between Linux and
WinXP Pro.  I chose to overwrite the old Fedora install rather than update.  Now
I can't boot into WinXP.  I see two or three normal lines of grub output and
then a jumble of 10 or so high-bit-set characters.  The computer beeps and then
sits there.

I think I've seen this before a long time ago on Fedora, but I don't remember
how I fixed it.  What exactly got corrupted here?

Comment 1 Luke Hutchison 2006-10-09 21:29:51 UTC

I tried the Windows XP Recovery Console, and neither "fixboot" nor "fixmbr" was
able to fix the problem.

Comment 2 Luke Hutchison 2006-11-02 05:21:17 UTC

I ended up re-installing XP and then putting FC6 final on the laptop.  This time
the MBR didn't get messed up, so I'm closing the bug.  Thanks.