Dual Booting Windows XP and Fedora FC2

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:10:31PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Fr, den 15.10.2004 schrieb michael.canetto at bcbssc.net um 22:46:
> 
> > I have Installed Fedora, And then Installed Windows XP, onto another
> > Partition on the same Machine, XP Overwrote the MBR, How do I Boot
> > Fedora Now? And still Boot XP? The Docs say you can install XP after
> > fedora and it will work. 
> 
> > Michael Canetto
> 
> If you first install Windows[tm] and then Linux, this will work
> instantly. What you now have to do is to boot with Fedora CD1 into
> rescue mode, chroot /mnt/sysimage and run grub-install. This will again
> place grub into the MBR.
> 
> Alexander
That is assuming that you have configured /etc/grub.conf to boot the
XP.
If not you may have to add a clause to the grub.conf. However in the
future I agree it would all work better if you install the XP first.
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