There is a bug in Fedora Core 2 that causes the hard disk geometry as reported in the partition table to be altered during installation. This change may cause Windows boot failure. Although this bug is severe, it is recoverable and no data should be lost.
I am using unattended to install windows onto the lab machines automatedly. I believe the above-mentioned jacking around with the partition table caused me to be unable to use my normal setup to do the install. It would just hang after trying to boot, even when (I thought) I blew away the whole drive and started over.
I ended up dd'ing zeroes onto the first chunk of the drive, which did allow me to subsequently install windows as per usual.
Posted by jshare at November 12, 2004 06:10 PM