On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 17:12 -0400, Mike Zingale wrote: > I just did a clean install of Fedora 9 on my laptop. I had the > install use any Linux partitions. Usually I would tell it to put grub > on the boot partition install of on the MBR, but I was not presented > that option with Fedora 9. > > However, it seems to have just magically worked -- my Windows XP boots > if I select "other" from the grub menu. I used to think that grub > overwrote the Windows MBR and that this could not work. Is this a > recent change with grub or somehow just an anomaly? That's always been the way I've made dual-boot boxes. Windows doesn't need to have control of the MBR to be bootable. BIOS loads GRUB, GRUB loads up the next thing. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
