Windows XP and Linux

[Mike McCarty]

Stuart Sears 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. Once GRUB is in memory, it's just GRUB, however it got
>>there, and can load Linux just fine.
>>
>>Mike
>>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?
> 
> 
> can I offer you some advice?

[snip]

> now onto your question...
> the windows boot manager is included with WinXP (it's how the OS starts
> up). If you want to make it boot linux too (i.e. offer you a choice),
> have a look at this...
> 
> http://linuxgazette.net/issue61/padala.html
> http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/02/16/1919205&tid=129&tid=49
> http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/ntldr.php
> 
> the second one seems most recent.
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Stuart

These are nice, but I did it a little differently, using GRUB.
It is a little nicer, I think, to install GRUB not in the MBR
but in the BR of a partition, if it isn't going to be used
as the primary boot manager.

Mike
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