On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 19:38 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Washington, CJ (OCTO) 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. > > > > > > That's nonsense. > > How can *you* know better than *I* what was easier > for *me*? > > > Millions of people are using to grub to boot Linux and/or Windows. > > It works perfectly well. > > I never said otherwise. > > [rest of crap cut] > > I have a machine which, if one overwrites the MBR, goes into > "recovery mode" and tries to reinstate WinXP as the boot. > > You don't know *everything* in the world, do you. > > So <insert your own favorite expletive here> off. ---- charming... I would suspect that if the WinXP system goes into recovery mode if MBR is overwritten, there is another problem that is afoot and overwriting the MBR is merely a symptom of the issue but not really the issue itself. If I recall correctly, FC-2 or thereabouts had an issue ascertaining the geometry and the partition tables of the hard drives, which probably a little research would provide much information about the resolution of that issue. Therein lies one of the problems with your perspective though - as I think you cling on to a Fedora release which has long since gone EOL and your experience is heavily influenced by what was a radical release, and I think Les alluded to the fact that there were probably some issues with FC-2 that were never really quite fixed and unfortunately, the advice you lend is potentially out of perspective with the FC-4 and FC-5 releases which are the current releases and are the only releases that are on topic on this message base. I do recognize that if by merely allowing winboot.ini to handle the bootup process actually fixes the symptom, that I might be inclined to quit there myself. Craig ps...your mother always knew what was best for you. I suspect that a wife or girlfriend also had their opinions too.
