I use a floppy disk to boot my Linux, leaving Windozes MBR there gives me the easy option of removing the floppy when booting Win2k. Banana. ----- Original Message ----- From: <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2004 2:13 PM Subject: Re: Dual Booting Windows XP and Fedora FC2 > On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:10:31PM +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Fr, den 15.10.2004 schrieb michael.canetto@xxxxxxxxxx um 22:46: > > > > > I have Installed Fedora, And then Installed Windows XP, onto another > > > Partition on the same Machine, XP Overwrote the MBR, How do I Boot > > > Fedora Now? And still Boot XP? The Docs say you can install XP after > > > fedora and it will work. > > > > > Michael Canetto > > > > If you first install Windows[tm] and then Linux, this will work > > instantly. What you now have to do is to boot with Fedora CD1 into > > rescue mode, chroot /mnt/sysimage and run grub-install. This will again > > place grub into the MBR. > > > > Alexander > That is assuming that you have configured /etc/grub.conf to boot the > XP. > If not you may have to add a clause to the grub.conf. However in the > future I agree it would all work better if you install the XP first. > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > One Trinity Place. > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx > > >
