From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: If Windows XP is installed on one Partition of the HD you cannot install Redhat on another, fdisk cannot read out the partitions. If you try it the partition table is going to be destroyed and your whole HD is unreadable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Win XP 2. Start Linux Installation 3. When you start fdisk you get a warning which must not be ignored! 4. If you ignore it, partitions are no more readable Actual Results: The system won't boot anymore, fdisk shows an empty harddisk. Expected Results: fdisk should show your partitions, if Windows 2000 is used it works. Additional info: Windows XP does not use the same coding of the partitiontable as Windows 2000, even if it seems to.
fdisk is in util-linux, so this is a util-linux bug and not a lilo bug
What is this warning?