Dual Boot with WinXP

[Mike McCarty]

Tod Merley wrote:

[snip]

> But that is only one of the issues.  Bootloader is probably the main
> issue to deal with.  When you install a Linux it most often replaces
> your Master Boot Record (MBR)(the first sector (512 bytes) of the
> disk).  Fedora will do so with GRUB stage one.  If you are otherwise
> set up to do so you can chainload XP, but often security applications
> and other machine management software may see fit to "fix" the MBR
> back to an XP MBR.  Probably a good solution is to chain load Linux
> through the XP boot loader.

[snip]

That's the way I do it on my machine. The Windows XP MBR and
Boot Manager chainload GRUB from a BR on my Linux Boot partition.
The Win XP boot manager actually works pretty well, and is easy
to configure. I second this recommendation.

Mike
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