On Fri, 6 May 2005, Paul Howarth wrote: > hanfamily@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Fri, 6 May 2005, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > > >>On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 08:29 +0800, jacquesdong wrote: > >> > >>>I would appreciate you i you can send me somespecial messages > >>>particularly focusing on > >>>the compatibility about Fedora core 3 and windows xp OSloader. > >> > >>If you install Fedora Core 3 into unpartitioned free space you have on > >>an existing Windows XP system, the Fedora installer will by default > >>install the grub bootloader on your Master Boot Record (MBR), and grub > >>will be configured to offer a choice between booting Windows and Linux. > >>Unlike Fedora Core 2, there are no major compatibility issues. > >> > >>Paul. > >> > > > > You can't write it to the mbr or xp will over write grub everytime. > > Every time you reinstall XP, not every time you boot it. Grub is > installed on the MBR by default in Fedora and dual-booting XP is not > normally a problem; I have a number of machines set up this way. If your > MBR is getting overwritten every time you boot XP then something is wrong. > > > If you set up fedora with /boot as a serperate partiton it is > > really easy following this how > > http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html > > Good luck - an extra note when you make the entries in boot.ini > > make sure time out is not set to 0 > > This is also a good method of dual-booting, but it's not the only way. > > Paul > > The compaq machine I just bought went into some kind of recovery everytime you booted xp and rewrote the MBR I don't know if it was xp or some helpful feature compaq added but it was truly annoying since I had fedora all setup and configured when I choose xp from grub and had grub overwritten. I tried turning off pc recovery ect even called compaq to see how to turn off this feature without any luck. The above howto was a great work around Linda
