Dual booting a few other systems with XP/RedHat or XP/Knoppix(Vanilla Debian, Mepis, etc) has been utterly straightforward. All the Linux distros seem to set up the dual boot automagically now. The info on the Net about manually configuring Grub/Lilo for a simple dual boot is now happily outdated.
-Max
Jim K wrote:
Windows will clobber the MBR, but some distros like Mandrake and Red Hat and Fedora when you boot the first cd in the set have a rescue mode that will recover the MBR for lilo or grub, tthen from within linux you can add windows onto lilo or grub. Also, if when installing linux or afterwards you make a boot floppy, you can get into linux that way to recover the MBR for lilo or grub. Jim K ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <euglug@euglug.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:47 PM Subject: [Eug-lug] dual boot
It's been so long since I set up dual boot on the same drive I can't remember the tricks. Here's how I think it goes... can anyone correct me if this is wrong?
Format drive Install Windows on first half of drive Install Linux on second half and put the bootload in the MBR
What I think I remember is that if you install Linux first, Windows will want to stomp on it. Also, I believe Windows doesn't like not being on the C:\ drive.
Does dual boot work fine with XP?
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