Dual boot FC2T2 and WinXP?

[Rob Freeman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shmuel siegel" <fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu>
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
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Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Dual boot FC2T2 and WinXP?


> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 19:40, Markku Kolkka wrote:
>
> > I tried the "repair existing installation" option from WinXP
> > install CD, but that had no effect.
>
> I can't talk for WinXP but in Win2k and Win2003 you can also go into a
> console mode for repair. You can repair the loader and if you have to
> you can repair the MBR. If you repair the MBR, you will lose the ability
> to use grub to boot linux. I have had luck before just restoring the
> boot loader.
>

In the console mode for XP, you can use the fixmbr and fixboot command to
get xp running again.  But like Shmuel said, you will lose your grub and
will have to restore the boot loader.

Rob