Fedora Core 2 and Windows xp

[Jim Cornette]

Jeff Ratliff wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:45:21PM +0200, Mikael Konttinen wrote:
> 
>>Ori,
>>
>>No, I believe that is because you have overwritten the MBR (Master Boot
>>Record) with GRUB, something that Windows XP cannot handle as it needs its
>>own (NT) bootloader.
>>
> 
> I've got GRUB in my MBR and can still boot Windows XP. I just 
> chainload my XP partition from GRUB. Windows doesn't need a
> special bootloader (although it's glad to wipe out GRUB whenever
> it gets a chance). 
> 
> 

I think that NT4/NT5 uses a program called ntloader or something 
similar. I wiped out the mbr with a win98 disk before and XP still 
worked fine.

The mbr area is pretty small and I believe only does very little than 
bridge bios to whatever will be booting the os.

Jim