A lot of people have a dual OS setup running on their computers. What happens when one OS makes it so you can"t boot into the other? A bug Red Hats Fedora Core 2 OS did exactly that, but only when Windows was the other OS. It"s worth noting that some manual hard drive reconfigurations have fixed the problem.
Red Hat"s newest hobbyist and developer version of Linux, Fedora Core 2, caused trouble for some who found they couldn"t start Windows after installing the Linux upgrade side by side with it.
The bug had cropped up in testing, but after Red Hat released Fedora Core 2 in May, many more users reported their systems no longer would boot Windows. No data on the Windows side was destroyed, and some manual hard drive reconfiguration fixed the problem.
"We do not think this is a severe problem," said Red Hat programmer Cristian Gafton in an e-mail interview, because information isn"t destroyed, the problem is repairable, and "a very small fraction of systems are affected." However, he added, "We recognize that it is an annoying issue for the users that are affected by it and we are working on publishing a fix that will address it."