Re: dual booting XP and Linux

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 19:38 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:


I found it easier to let the WinXP boot manager chain load GRUB
than the other way 'round. MicroSoft products like to be in
charge. While GRUB+Linux is not a good match, it is a reasonable
match, and works pretty well, whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match,
and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty reasonable tool.


That's nonsense.

How can *you* know better than *I* what was easier
for *me*?

Millions of people are using to grub to boot Linux and/or Windows.
It works perfectly well.

I never said otherwise.

[rest of crap cut]

I have a machine which, if one overwrites the MBR, goes into
"recovery mode" and tries to reinstate WinXP as the boot.

You don't know *everything* in the world, do you.

So <insert your own favorite expletive here> off.
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charming...

I would suspect that if the WinXP system goes into recovery mode if MBR
is overwritten, there is another problem that is afoot and overwriting
the MBR is merely a symptom of the issue but not really the issue
itself. If I recall correctly, FC-2 or thereabouts had an issue
ascertaining the geometry and the partition tables of the hard drives,
which probably a little research would provide much information about
the resolution of that issue.

Therein lies one of the problems with your perspective though - as I
think you cling on to a Fedora release which has long since gone EOL and
your experience is heavily influenced by what was a radical release, and
I think Les alluded to the fact that there were probably some issues
with FC-2 that were never really quite fixed and unfortunately, the
advice you lend is potentially out of perspective with the FC-4 and FC-5
releases which are the current releases and are the only releases that
are on topic on this message base.

I do recognize that if by merely allowing winboot.ini to handle the
bootup process actually fixes the symptom, that I might be inclined to
quit there myself.

Craig

ps...your mother always knew what was best for you. I suspect that a
wife or girlfriend also had their opinions too.

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