Dual boot with windows xp

Seth Bardash seth at integratedsolutions.org
Thu Jul 29 00:43:26 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of jeem
machine
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:36 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Dual boot with windows xp
> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:26:29 -0500, Price Technology 
> <pricetech at charter.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:50:21 -0700 (PDT), Robert Johnson 
> > <rjkjx at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > How would I modify the boot.ini file to boot fedora?
> > >
> > >
> > That's a good question for a winders mailing list.  I don't 
> think it's 
> > possible though, because winders don't comprehend the Linux
file 
> > system.
> > 
> > Joebewan
> 
> You can't. You could use Boot Magic from Partition Magic 
> though. Your better off fixing grub. Jeem

It not only possible but it works great and gives a choice of
operating systems at boot time. I use it on my triple boot system.

To boot linux from the Windows NT/2000/XP loader requires that you
make a copy of the boot sector of the linux install at install
time, copy it to a floppy and then copy it to the root directory
in the XP partition. Then an entry must be added to boot.ini

If someone want the article on how this is done I can email it to
them. I didn't write it but it does work. If there are many
requests I will make it available from our web site.

We use this method all the time and it works fine.

Best

Seth Bardash

Integrated Solutions and Systems
http://www.integratedsolutions.org

Supplier of AMD and Intel Servers and Systems running Windows,
Linux, Solaris and VxWorks.

*Failure can not cope with perseverance*


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