Fedora Core 2 and Windows xp

Jeff Ratliff jefrat at earthlink.net
Mon Jul 19 21:58:39 UTC 2004


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). 





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