Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:25 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
I found it easier to let the WinXP boot manager chain load GRUB
than the other way 'round. MicroSoft products like to be in
charge. While GRUB+Linux is not a good match, it is a reasonable
match, and works pretty well, whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match,
and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty reasonable tool. Once GRUB
is in memory, it's just GRUB, however it got there, and can load
Linux just fine.
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it really doesn't much matter - generally, it's whatever is more
comfortable for the user but the user is likely to get more and better
help using grub on this list than the Windows bootloader.
Personally, I am more comfortable with GRUB than I am with the WinXP
boot manager. But I had more troubles getting WinXP convinced to boot
under the control of GRUB than I had getting GRUB convinced to boot
under the control of WinXP boot manager.
In general, I have found dual-booting a waste of time and energy and can
only see the point of it on laptops...for people not wanting to give up
the Windows option.
I wasn't recommending dual-boot systems. In general, I agree that
they are more trouble than they are worth. I was trying to answer
the question as asked. My system is dual boot because I was asked
by a fellow who was willing to pay me money to make it happen.
Mike
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