Windows XP and Linux

[Washington, CJ (OCTO)]

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On Behalf Of Mike McCarty
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:26 PM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: dual booting XP and Linux

Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:
> Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP using two Hard drives.
> 
>  
> 
> Have another question, I tired and tried to load Linux and XP using 
> two different Hard Drives.  XP loaded
> 
> Correctly, and it seemed as if Linux did to. I loaded XP on the 
> primary drive and linux on the slave drive.  I followed the 
> instructions on Fedoras site on how to dual boot two operating systems 
> and installed grub in the MBR on hda.  Every time I tried to boot the 
> machine, the MBR was I guess ignored and linux never booted.  XP kept 
> booting.  So I found a website that mentioned removing one of the 
> harddrives, installing XP on it, then removing that harddrive and 
> plugging in the second harddrive as master, install Linux on that one, 
> then plug in the hard drive with XP as the slave drive.  Then booting into
linux and changing the grub.conf file.

I found it easier to let the WinXP boot manager chain load GRUB than the
other way 'round. MicroSoft products like to be in charge. While GRUB+Linux
is not a good match, it is a reasonable match, and works pretty well,
whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match, and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty
reasonable tool. Once GRUB is in memory, it's just GRUB, however it got
there, and can load Linux just fine.

Mike
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Mike, thanks for your help, so since I do have Linux successfully installed
and I have Windows XP successfully installed but on two different hard
drives, how do I make WinXP boot manager understand how to dual boot using
Linux as an option?  

Is WinXP boot manager a separate tool that I need to purchase?
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