by refractor » Dec 16, 2003 @ 9:42am
I had problems with Linux and one of my IDE RAID cards - it took a while for the drivers to become mature enough to trust. However, that was more a problem of the vendor not supporting their product to any decent degree.
Also, I have "issues" with RedHat 9's stability. On a fresh install both the kernel and glibc needed updating to stop certain things crashing horribly. (Well, they didn't crash as such, that would be too easy - it was the threading library that kept dead-locking itself).
Anyway, if you're not competant enough to boot a root-boot floppy and repair your partition table and/or the boot-loader, then install it on another drive...
Personally I find the linux boot-loader (prefer GRUB these days) much nicer to manage than the Windows equivalent.
"fdisk /mbr" from a boot floppy has also saved me more than once.