On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 19:45, Christopher Taylor wrote: > I am having problems dual booting my XP and fedora. The HP computer has a > hidden partition on the main drive which screws up any boot loader I've > tried causing me to have to reformat the drive and re-install xp. Is > there a way to istall the bootloader on floppy or cd and boot from there? Better method: 1. Install XP as normal. 2. Install FC2 and set up grub as the bootloader, installed in your root or boot partition rather than the MBR. 3. Use bootpart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) to add an entry to the XP boot loader menu to start grub from the appropriate partition. I've never had a problem with this method. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
