Red Hat Linux boots Windows off PCs
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.
Red Hat programmer Cristian Gafton said in an email interview: "We do not think this is a severe problem" because information isn't destroyed, the problem is repairable and "a very small fraction of systems are affected."
