dual boot problem

[Mike McCarty]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 10:29 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
> 
>>On 7/21/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>well I am not expert in the boot loaders but I went through similar
>>>problem before in Redhat 9 days.
>>>
>>>It has something to do with Windows 2000/NT because windows 2000 MBR
>>>and Grub is not compatible unlike Windows 98/me/xp, where grub can
>>>chain load other operating systems. Whichever you install first,

Erm, see below.

>>>windows 2000 will overwrite the MBR. If you plan to use both Windows
>>>2000 and Linux, you have to use third party boot loader (I guess
>>>commercial ones). Since its been long time I forgot which boot loaders
>>>are avilable out there. You can search the goole for available tools.
> 
> The above is not true. Win 2000 and Linux both can be booted from grub,

Erm, see below

> although it is true that it would be better the first time if the
> Windows was installed first. Otherwise using Linux rescue and
> grub-install will make it work.

Depends on OEM. I have a machine with XP and FC on it, and GRUB cannot
boot XP. So I use the XP boot manager to load either XP or GRUB. XP
actually has a pretty nice boot manager.

YMMV

Mike
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