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FC2 problem

Salamo 3alekom when trying with FC2 this problem happen

first a tall message during the first step in the setup saying something like ur partation table couldn' be align with ur BIOS geometry this may happen due to ........

i couldn't complete the message and i have two choice ignore or canel when ignore pressed the setup complete smoothly untill finshsed and FC2 come on my screen and run it is really cool dist. but when i tried to use windows from grub loader it couldn't boot i tried to make some stupid command with grub directly trying top boot windows manually but all my trying may give the same result that windows not boot or may returned me to the grub i tried reinstall windows but no new news come the installing give the same result after first reboot so i repartioning my hard disk currently i used MDK10 and it installed without any problem i don't care to windows but my family use it and couldn't force them to use linux

note : before i install FC2 i have already installed RH9 and MDK10 before and this problem happen to a friend of me also

$ sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.tx

$ sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.txt

Or whatever your HDD name was (hdb?) Open up hda.txt and remove the error message

Then: $ cat hda.txt | sfdisk --no-reread -H255 /dev/hda

And tell us what happens.

sfdisk

salamo 3alekom

thanks alot for ur reply but currently i repartioning my hardisk and i use mdk10 and windows the question is??? what (sfdsik -d) do?? is this just a check or affect my hardisk

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