dual booting XP and Linux

[Les Mikesell]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 22:33, Stanton Finley wrote:

> There is a recovery partition on many Gateway machines, including my
> GT5034 Dual Athlon. Writing grub to the MBR in a dual boot scenario
> causes this machine to automatically go into recovery mode, restoring
> Windows and overwriting the MBR which removes grub. 

That seems like something that should have an option in the
cmos setup to disable.   If not, I guess a grub floppy or
CD would work.

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  Les Mikesell
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