[wellylug] Re: MBR, GRUB .. & a capital C with a Cedilla

[Adam Bogacki]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 04:29:32PM +0100 or thereabouts, Gerald Roehrbein wrote:
> Hello Adam,
> 
> I've never configured dual boot for Linux and Windows XP but for NT. 
> 
> Try this link:
> http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
> 
> 
> In the past I configured triple boot for Linux, OS/2 and Windows NT 4.0.
> 
> This works if you install Windows first, than Linux (using LiLO) and
> after this OS/2. The first boot loader run was the one from OS/2 and
> this loaded the loader of Windows or Linux. I had to choose twice before
> running my favorite OS.
> 
> Booting NT (I do not know this for Windows XP) requires the ntdetect.com
> and the boot.ini. It was useful to boot from a RAID1 (with controller
> duplexing) after a controller failure.
> 
> For XP have a look at this link:
> 
> http://www.computerhope.com/boot.htm
> 
> 
> So first of all I would setup a bootdisk (floppy disk!) and try to get a
> running setup. This is really simple if you know how to edit the
> boot.ini. 
> 
> And than I would try to configure GRUB as describe at the WebSite i
> referred above.
> 
> My Windows XP knowledge is not up to date. I've a good knowledge of NT,
> Windows 2000 and 2003 server. I've never used XP. Sorry. My favorite
> OS'es are Linux and Solaris.
> 
> 
> 
> kind regards
> Gerald
> 
> 
> 
> 
Thanks Gerald, I'll follow that up. I have XP mounted on Deb unstable
and can edit it's files using vim. I think that XP was a successor
to NT so it should be much the same. It's always good to get a fresh
perspective.

Adam.

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