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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com [<A HREF="mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com</A>] On Behalf Of Mike McCarty</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:26 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: For users of Fedora Core releases</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: dual booting XP and Linux</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Fedora Core 5 and Windows XP using two Hard drives.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Have another question, I tired and tried to load Linux and XP using two</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> different Hard Drives. XP loaded </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> Correctly, and it seemed as if Linux did to. I loaded XP on the primary</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> drive and linux on the slave drive. I followed the instructions on Fedoras</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> site on how to dual boot two operating systems and installed grub in the MBR</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> on hda. Every time I tried to boot the machine, the MBR was I guess ignored</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> and linux never booted. XP kept booting. So I found a website that</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> mentioned removing one of the harddrives, installing XP on it, then removing</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> that harddrive and plugging in the second harddrive as master, install Linux</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> on that one, then plug in the hard drive with XP as the slave drive. Then</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> booting into linux and changing the grub.conf file. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I found it easier to let the WinXP boot manager chain load GRUB</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>than the other way 'round. MicroSoft products like to be in</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>charge. While GRUB+Linux is not a good match, it is a reasonable</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>match, and works pretty well, whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty reasonable tool. Once GRUB</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>is in memory, it's just GRUB, however it got there, and can load</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Linux just fine.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Mike</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Mike, thanks for your help, so since I do have Linux successfully installed and I have Windows XP successfully installed but on two different hard drives, how do I make WinXP boot manager understand how to dual boot using Linux as an option? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Is WinXP boot manager a separate tool that I need to purchase?</FONT>
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