dual boot problems

[disguised.jedi at gmail.com]

Yeah...you need to put grub on the first sector of the boot partition,
as Windows is paranoid about something screwing up the MBR.  And the
NT loader CAN'T load Linux....trust me...I've tried.....

On 5/3/05, Mauriat <mirandam at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I bought a new compaq computer with win xp partitioned the
> > drive installed fedora with grub to load. I had everything
> > working then I booted windows it goes into pc recovery and
> > overwrites the boot section so it only will boot windows.
> > Is there a way to get this to work?  If not is there a
> > way to make a boot cd to access the linux partition.
> 
> Just an idea:
> Try re-installing grub to your boot partition or root partition
> (wherever you boot) and then use the NT boot loader in XP to load
> linux. This way you are not re-writing the MBR.
> http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html
> 
> Mauriat
> 
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