I had no issues whatsoever. although I am using 2 hard drives each separately bootable. I just choose to boot to hdb (fc5), where I can choose to pass the buck onto hda (xp).<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/6/06,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Mike McCarty</b> <<a href="mailto:Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net">Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Craig White wrote:<br>> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:25 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:<br>><br><br>>>I found it easier to let the WinXP boot manager chain load GRUB<br>>>than the other way 'round. MicroSoft products like to be in
<br>>>charge. While GRUB+Linux is not a good match, it is a reasonable<br>>>match, and works pretty well, whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match,<br>>>and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty reasonable tool. Once GRUB
<br>>>is in memory, it's just GRUB, however it got there, and can load<br>>>Linux just fine.<br>><br>> ----<br>> it really doesn't much matter - generally, it's whatever is more<br>> comfortable for the user but the user is likely to get more and better
<br>> help using grub on this list than the Windows bootloader.<br><br>Personally, I am more comfortable with GRUB than I am with the WinXP<br>boot manager. But I had more troubles getting WinXP convinced to boot<br>under the control of GRUB than I had getting GRUB convinced to boot
<br>under the control of WinXP boot manager.<br><br>> In general, I have found dual-booting a waste of time and energy and can<br>> only see the point of it on laptops...for people not wanting to give up<br>> the Windows option.
<br><br>I wasn't recommending dual-boot systems. In general, I agree that<br>they are more trouble than they are worth. I was trying to answer<br>the question as asked. My system is dual boot because I was asked<br>by a fellow who was willing to pay me money to make it happen.
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