[lug] RE: Dual Boot with Windows XP (J. Wayde Allen)

Ed Hill ed at eh3.com
Fri Jul 5 09:10:36 MDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 22:15, Joe Betts wrote:
> Dual boot with XP is a problem. I've heard it said that XP wants to own the 
> boot partition.

Really?

We have four machines here in our lab all dual-booting RH 7.2-3 and
WinXP using grub in the MBR.

The only trick (if you can call it that) is to install WinXP first and
then let Linux take care of the rest.

hth,
Ed

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