dual booting XP and Linux

[Stanton Finley]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:20, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> > You made a general assertion that "Grub+Linux is not a good match"
> > (what on earth does that mean?),
> > and that "Grub+WinXP is a poor match".
> > 
> > These are not simply statements about what was easier for you.
> > They are general propositions which you presumably believe to be true.
> > 
> > They are not true.
> 
> Has anyone actually had trouble with fedora's automatic
> dual boot setup on an existing windows box since that
> size computation bug in FC2 days?
> 
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>    lesmikesell at gmail.com
> 
> 

There is a recovery partition on many Gateway machines, including my
GT5034 Dual Athlon. Writing grub to the MBR in a dual boot scenario
causes this machine to automatically go into recovery mode, restoring
Windows and overwriting the MBR which removes grub. Thus I am left with
an unbootable Fedora partition. Even when I wiped the whole disk and
restored the OEM operating system (Windows XP Media Center Edition) with
the included Gateway CD and eliminated the restore partition the dual
boot still crashes the machine. (This occurred with the x86_64, I have
not tried it with i386 Fedora.) I'm still trying to figure out how to
get dual boot to work on this machine with two partitions on the drive.
-- 
Stanton Finley
http://stanton-finley.net/