[OT] My laptop is heavier

[vu pham]

james at jamesmcdonald.id.au wrote:
>> Going off fat-free is not easy. Yesterday I were trying to reinstall XP
>> onto a notebook that had FC. The XP DVD just booted from the DVD then
>> showing just a blank screen for ever ( at least up to 30 minutes ).
>> Tried again with RHEL, FC, Knoppix DVDs, all booted fine.
>>
>> Swapping the harddrive did not help. ( The 2nd hard drive also has Linux
>> there ).
>>
>> I wiped out the whole drive with /dev/zero then XP could be installed.
>> It looks like XP does not like those fat-free material.
> 
> I have had this issue before. I think I just deleted all the partitions
> and may have(can't remember) blatted the MBR and I think from then on it
> booted OK.
> 
> Annoying time waster when you first come up against it.
> 

I did boot back to FC, deleted the partitions, and partprobe'd to be 
sure the partitions were gone then re-booted but that did not help. But 
I forgot to clear the MBR.

Vu