Mike McCarty wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 08:19 -0700, oldman wrote:
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FIXBOOT isn't supposed to do a thing to the MBR.
FIXMBR would do that but that would be disastrous to grub and booting
Linux
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Not so. I use the original MBR to boot to the WinXP boot manager,
which does an admirable job of starting GRUB.
I've seen several posts here to the effect that multi-booting
a system is no longer much of a chore, and that things pretty
much work, unlike in the bad old days with WinNT. I haven't
had that experience. I find that Windows pretty much likes
to manage its own boot, and is best left alone doing that.
YMMV
Mike
Agreed M$ is quite a bit more friendly about multibooting but they
must stop automatically overwriting MBR (wouldn't hurt to take a page
from GRUB and have it chainload IMHO)
Scott
