Dual-booting F7 and WinXP on separate harddisks

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 14 13:34:26 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:12 -0400, Michael Klinosky wrote:
> I want to set up a system much like David's (except that I have Windows 
> 2000 installed - but it is NTFS). No one brought up an issue that I've 
> been working on.
> 
> I need to know if I should put grub on the Windows disk (and let it
> handle the boot). If so, how do I back up the existing booter? (With dd?
> I have F7 Live, so I could boot that, and save it to the Windows disk.)
> 
> Or, should I put grub on the /boot partition? (I drefragmented Windows,
> and shrank it - have about 150 MegB free on that disk.)
> 
grub boot on the first sector of the primary disk would be better.
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