Windows XP and fedora Core 4

[Timothy Payne]

I keep my Win98 on a second drive, that way I can unplug an offending
OS.  Windows must believe it is the only one, did some one say ego? :-) 

On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 19:21 +0100, Ambrogio wrote:
> Il giorno dom, 05/02/2006 alle 13.32 +0100, Jeremy Thompson ha scritto:
> 
>   The reason, if I remeber correctly, is that windows re-writes the MBR
> (master boot record) so that only windows partitions are recognized.
> Therefore you need to install windows first, then Linux.  There might be
> some programs out there that let you do it the other way around, but I
> don't know them.  Sorry for the bad news! 
> 
> Even if Windows overwrite the MBR there are two possibilities:
> 
> The first is to revrite MBR with LILO or Grub or another bootloader.
> 
> The second is the the Microsoft bootloader for Windows NT, 2000, 2003,
> (and I think also for XP) is capable to call another bootloader.
> So you can boot Linux by the microsoft bootloader.
> 
> The problem may be in the C: disk and in the fact that microsoft like to
> boot from the first partition of the first disk.
> But it's not a real problem
> 
> Searching on the net you can find a lot of articles regarding it.
> 
> Bye
>  Ambrogio
> 
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