Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-07 Thread Bruce Brown
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 04:01 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: On Tue Feb 3 2004 12:47 pm, David Reid wrote: I'm preparing to install Mandrake 9.2 to dual boot with Windows XP on my laptop. It's my first install and I've reduced the NTFS partition using Partition Magic 8.0 to make 9Gb of the 20Gb

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-06 Thread Johan
Hi, Since you want to give it a try..here is a copy of my grub menu.. * timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,8)/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd0,8)/boot/us.klt altconfigfile (hd0,8)/boot/grub/menu.once default 0 # title Windows XP Home hdg1

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-05 Thread Johan
Hi, I suggest grub.. On my drive one there is win 98 - mdk 9.2 - fedora - suse 9.0. On my drive two there is win xp home. Grub handles this effortlessly. I even experimented with to two win systems (up to 3 win systems can be handled) on same drive - that worked fine with the hide/unhide option.

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-05 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:56:24 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I suggest grub.. On my drive one there is win 98 - mdk 9.2 - fedora - suse 9.0. On my drive two there is win xp home. Grub handles this effortlessly. I even experimented with to two win systems (up to 3 win systems can

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-04 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:13:59 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I need. On the first primary partition (C: to Windows),WinNT/2K/XP will always put ntldr and ntdetect.com in the root. The waySystem Commander handles this is to create backup directories

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-04 Thread Robert Walker
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 4:59 am, Guy Rouillier wrote: Robert, mind if I piggyback on this question? I have a new AMD64 laptop, and it came with XP Home (of course!) I want to put XP-64 as well as Mandrake 32-bit and 64-bit. Can lilo or grub handle copying files before starting to boot

[newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-03 Thread David Reid
I'm preparing to install Mandrake 9.2 to dual boot with Windows XP on my laptop. It's my first install and I've reduced the NTFS partition using Partition Magic 8.0 to make 9Gb of the 20Gb disk available. Ideally, I'd like to install LILO/GRUB on the MBR but I've read reports of non-windows boot

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 03:47 pm, David Reid wrote: I'm preparing to install Mandrake 9.2 to dual boot with Windows XP on my laptop. It's my first install and I've reduced the NTFS partition using Partition Magic 8.0 to make 9Gb of the 20Gb disk available. Ideally, I'd like to install

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue Feb 3 2004 12:47 pm, David Reid wrote: I'm preparing to install Mandrake 9.2 to dual boot with Windows XP on my laptop. It's my first install and I've reduced the NTFS partition using Partition Magic 8.0 to make 9Gb of the 20Gb disk available. Ideally, I'd like to install LILO/GRUB on

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-03 Thread Robert Walker
On Tuesday 03 Feb 2004 8:47 pm, David Reid wrote: I'm preparing to install Mandrake 9.2 to dual boot with Windows XP on my laptop. It's my first install and I've reduced the NTFS partition using Partition Magic 8.0 to make 9Gb of the 20Gb disk available. Ideally, I'd like to install LILO/GRUB

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 05:23 pm, Robert Walker wrote: a cheapo MSI motherboard. This MB has a virus checker in the BIOS which checks the MBR for nasty viri. Unfortunately it thinks Linux is a virus so I just turned it off (its probably only needed by M$ Winblows users anyway :-). So don't

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-03 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 22:23:11 + Robert Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, I have a dual boot Windows XP Pro and MDK 9.2 on my P4-M laptop. I had Windows XP Pro installed as a single NTFS partition (about 36gig). I just resized the Windows partition using the Mandrake