Re: Setting up PC for dual-boot Linux and Windows XP

From: Ed Light (nobody_at_nobody.there)
Date: 08/31/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 18:00:42 -0700

"Michael C." <mcsuper5@usol.com> wrote

> XP needs at least some real estate at the beginning of the drive.

It doesn't when running under bootitng with limit primaries inactive. I can
paste or move an XP partition to the end of the drive and it boots. It will
boot from the slave too. 

-- 
Ed Light
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