FC4: grub no longer allows windows booting

[oldman]

Mike McCarty wrote:

> Craig White wrote:
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>> 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