Making Fedora Boot CD

[Coy Scott]

Thanks.  But, I think I would prefer not to try reconfiguring the Windows XP 
bootloader.  I doubt there would be any helpful Microsoft documentation 
about their bootloader.  Besides, I strongly suspect that the 
Gateway/Microsoft self-repairing software would detect the change and force 
a reinstallation of Windows XP and overwriting of the master boot record.

Coy Scott


>From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Making Fedora Boot CD
>Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:03:22 +1030
>
>On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 14:55 -0600, Coy Scott wrote:
> > Whenever I installed GRUB on the master boot record (MBR) and then
> > rebooted windows XP, the software detected "file corruption" and
> > forced a reinstallation of Windows XP.  This overwrote the MBR,
> > removing GRUB and making it impossible to boot Fedora.
> >
> > So, I tried the only other installation option.  I had the
> > installation program install GRUB on first sector of the boot
> > partition (/dev/sda6).  However, when I reboot the computer, GRUB
> > never gets to run because Windows XP is using the MBR.
>
>Sounds like you might want to take this approach:
>
>Copy the Linux boot record as a file into the Windows partition, and use
>the XP bootloader to boot either Windows or Linux.  This way your boot
>record stays as Microsoft demands.
>
>It's ages since I arranged that for a friend's multi-boot machine, so
>I'd defer to someone else's advice for setting it up.  It's also covered
>on the internet in various places.  I just Googled for boot.ini grub
><http://www.google.com.au/search?q=boot.ini+grub>, and found this:
><http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/2337> (which is a rather complex page of
>what I described - there's bound to be something less convoluted).
><http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html> looks a bit
>easier to follow.
>
>See how you go.
>
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