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I've been using a dual-boot with XP and I haven't had any problems with that. The only problem was the initial ntloader failure message on bootup. But once I realized I could just wait that out and go to grub, I didn't have a problem.
David McCormick wrote:
| I guess I'm just lucky, I have been dual booting Windos XpPand RH | 8.0 FC-1 FC-2 and FC- X86_64 using first LILO and now GRUB. At | this time I have a triple boot system using grub to boot FC-2 | X86_64 and XP-32, and the beta XP-64 . I have not run across the | problems that others are reporting. I have XP32 on my sda disk, | FC-2 one the sdb disk and XP-64 on the sdc disk with Grub loaded to | sda1 mbr partition. I installed XT-32 first and then FC-2. XP-64 is | booted by first booting XP-32 which gives me a second boot screen | with XP-32 and XP-64 as choices. Just an aside XP-64 is just | about unusable in its beta form. It loads drivers for my ATI900 | PRO but not Sound Blaster live 5.1, no printers are supported, in | fact very little is supported other than graphics boards. MS | suggests that you tell the board and printer Manufacturers to get | on the stick. With the exception of Nautilus crashing every time | you start it and that you can"t set Gnome Screen preferences | because that also crashes every time I start it, I just use KDE | instead, I really like the X86_64 I just wish the 32 bit libs were | loaded when its installed so that I could use a couple of programs | that run fine on FC-2 but not FC-2 X86_64. | | David | | rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: | |>> ------------------------------ |>> |>> Message: 14 Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:34:18 -0400 And, I guess |>> we'll get to read about how it's an MS problem and how newbies |>> and Window-users shouldn't be using Fedora if they want to |>> migrate to Linux and only have themselves to blame if they |>> encounter this problem. |>> |>> |>>>>> Not true. They bought Windows, right? Call tech-support. |>>>>> Demand correction of bug. |>>>>> |>>>>> Or... much better, ignore them entirely... or give them a |>>>>> call: |>>>>> |>>>>> Hi, just to say: one less Windows user... |>>>>> |>>>>> |>>>>> |>>> Rui |>>> |>>> |>> Humm, bad attitude IMO. OTOH, its a well known fact that a |>> windows install will trash any linux installed mbr things and |>> has been doing it for years. On purpose we think... |>> |>> |> |> |> It's more than just a bad attitude. It's a defeatist attitude. |> |> |> What an easy world for a monopolist it would be if every time |> they put up an obstacle, their opponents said, "We're not going |> to try to overcome that obstacle. They put it up, so they should |> take it down." |> |> And telling a monopolist that they just lost a customer doesn't |> shake them like a normal corporation because they don't abide by |> market forces or fair competition. |> |> Our *responsibility* in the face of monopolistic tactics like |> this is to build workarounds and fixes. Fortunately, I'm |> guessing that Redhat people working of this might feel similarly. |> If nothing else, I'm sure they're not sitting around waiting for |> MS to fix the bug, as this user suggested. |> |> MS created the problem, but it's up to us to find the solution. |> Mandrake did have a similar problem with 10.0 CE that didn't take |> my system down, so I was lucky, but they fixed it. This isn't a |> Fedora-specific issue. And possibly this is a kernel issue. But |> it doesn't matter if, at its root, this is MS's creation - it's |> the Linux community's problem now to fix. |> |> Or, we could just call MS tech support and demand a correction to |> the bug... ;) |> |> By the way, since this bug has been noted by multiple users since |> February, is it in the errata? I couldn't find it. |> |> |> |>
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