NO BOOT!!! NT loader

Sean Stagg scstagg at wisc.edu
Wed Dec 17 20:39:23 UTC 2003


Would you suggest that I do a clean install again or just upgrade and use 
GRUB on MBR of hda (that's correct, right?) Also, I shouldn't mess around 
with the advanced settings then as well? (Me=Paranoid Newbie)

At 01:17 PM 12/17/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 12:48, Sean Stagg wrote:
> > I'm new to Linux and wanted to use the NT loader as I still want XP to 
> work
> > well. I have two 120GB drives, hda with XP and recently installed hdb with
> > Fedora. I want to use nt loader and not have to monkey around with the MBR
> > of hda as She Who Must Be Obeyed uses this (for the time being).
>
>Don't worry about the SWMBO and use grub. You will save yourself a lot
>of headaches and it won't effect your windows installation other than
>presenting a grub menu. It can even be removed easily with XP's fixmbr
>without effecting XP's ability to boot.
>
>Using NT Bootloader is not going to be an easy task and I wouldn't wish
>it on my enemy.
>
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