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Re: XP then Linux



I've done this.  GRUB boots WinXP just fine. The relevant entry in
menu.lst (assuming XP is the first partition on the first hard drive)
is:

Title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)  
makeactive
chainloader +1


On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 20:17, Noah Meyerhans wrote:

> GRUB may be able to boot both operating systems from the hard drive...
> Then again, maybe not.  I can't hurt to try.  It might be safe to keep
> an XP boot disk around, just in case you render it unbootable.  And if
> it turns out that you really can't dual boot from the HD, you can delete
> GRUB from within XP by using 'fdisk/mbr' in a command prompt.
> 
> noah
> 
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