Fedora and window Xp dual boot

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 10:06 -0700, Shelby, James wrote:
> You should be able to modify the boot.ini on your Windows Drive and
> add the Fedora bootloader.  This wasn’t too difficult but I needed to
> do a dd if=/dev/sdb of=linux.bin bs=512 count=1
> 
>  
You could do that but using grub the Fedora boot loader to load Windows
is easier.
> 
> Then copy that bin file over to my windows system.
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> With the way Windows seems to not like Linux taking over the
> bootloader I still use grub on my windows system with the
> understanding that it could very well one day not boot windows.
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> From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Suraj
> Polade
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 10:03 AM
> To: Fedora Support
> Subject: RE: Fedora and window Xp dual boot
> 
> 
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> 
> Thanks, I hope this will work .... 
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: James.Shelby at nrel.gov
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:55:48 -0700
> Subject: RE: Fedora and window Xp dual boot
> 
> When you install Fedora you choose where to install the boot loader.
> It was installed on the fedora drive instead of the windows drive.  It
> would be less risky to add Fedora to the Windows boot loader.
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> From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Suraj
> Polade
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 9:46 AM
> To: Fedora Support
> Subject: RE: Fedora and window Xp dual boot
> 
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> Dear James Shelby,
>                         Thank you for the help 
> But i don't know how to change the boot loader
> 
> can you please enplane how to do it 
> 
> 
> Suru 
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: James.Shelby at nrel.gov
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:40:11 -0700
> Subject: RE: Fedora and window Xp dual boot
> 
> Change the boot loader or add the chain loader in the XP loader C:
> \boot.ini file
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> From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Suraj
> Polade
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 8:27 AM
> To: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Fedora and window Xp dual boot
> 
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> 
> Hi,
>        I have two internal hard drive, and Window XP is installed on
> it.
> 
> I tried to install the Fedora 13 on the second hard drive it got
> properly installed but i can not boot the Fedora.
> 
> PC directly booting only to the Window, and no option to boot Fedora.
> 
> then I installed the Fedora on same hard drive on which Window is
> installed, and now i can boot both the Window and Fedora.
> 
> but i want to both the window and Fedora of different hard drive, can
> some one suggest what is going wrong. why i am not able to boot
> Fedora 
> when i installed it on the second hard drive (On which window is not
> installed )
> 
> Thanks in Advance for help
> 
> Suru
>   
> 
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