dual booting XP and Linux

[Timothy Murphy]

Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:

> 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.

That's nonsense.
Millions of people are using to grub to boot Linux and/or Windows.
It works perfectly well.

It's easier to install Windows first,
but if you install Linux (with grub) first
it is a good idea to save the MBR with something like

        dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1

Then you can replace it afterwards (if you want) with

        dd of=/dev/hda if=mbr bs=512 count=1

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