dual booting XP and Linux

[Mike McCarty]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.

How can *you* know better than *I* what was easier
for *me*?

> Millions of people are using to grub to boot Linux and/or Windows.
> It works perfectly well.

I never said otherwise.

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I have a machine which, if one overwrites the MBR, goes into
"recovery mode" and tries to reinstate WinXP as the boot.

You don't know *everything* in the world, do you.

So <insert your own favorite expletive here> off.

Mike
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