dual booting XP and Linux

[Mike McCarty]

Stanton Finley wrote:
> 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.

I have that same situation with my Presario. The way I got it to
work (detractors and non-believers that Fedora install doesn't
always "just work") was to let WinXP manage the boot. The WinXP
boot manager comes up and presents me with a menu, including
"Windows XP", "Safe Mode", "Recovery Mode", and "Linux", the
last of which I added and which really just loads GRUB, which then
asks me which kernel I want to boot.

If you need more information about how I got this to work, shoot
me an e-mail. Since the tone around here seems to be that
this is all in our imaginations, I wouldn't want to burden anyone
with facts about non-existent OT situations. We'll see if we
can't get your machine up.

Mike
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