Dual boot Fedora <--> Windows 8

[Andre Costa]

Makes sense (unfortunately :-/ ). I will be prepared, thks ;-)

Another (offtopic) question: anyone knows if Windows 8 can be installed so
far on the disk? (XP for example can't handle large disks) I would really
hate to have to repartition because of Windows... I will only use it
eventually for gaming.

Regards,

Andre


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Allegedly, on or about 22 November 2013, Andre Costa sent:
> > I have the following partitions on a 1TB disk:
> >
> >    - 1M BIOS boot partition
> >    - 500M Linux boot partition
> >    - 733G Linux LVM partition (Fedora 19)
> >    - 200G unused space
> >
> > I would like to install Windows 8 on this last partition. Anyone knows
> > if this will mess up with my current boot manager? Can Windows 8
> > coexist with GRUB?
>
> Windows installations have always messed with bootloaders to set things
> up for itself, and nothing else.  So I wouldn't expect any newer
> versions of Windows to be any different.  Be prepared to redo your
> bootloader, for dual-booting, post Windows installation.
>
> The only time I've seen Windows installations acknowledge prior installs
> and give you a boot choice has been when installing some versions of
> Windows with a another version of Windows.  Microsoft only cares about
> Microsoft.
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