Dual-Booting XP?

Monty J. Harder mjharder at gmail.com
Sun Jan 23 15:56:39 CST 2005


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:33:47 -0600, Jonathan Hutchins
<hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
> Is there an issue with using Lilo (or Grub) to dual boot with XP?  I've never
> had any trouble with NT, although I didn't bother to skip the NTLoader, so I
> had two boot managers running at startup if I chose NT.

  If you read my earlier post today, you'll see the details on how to
use the XP boot loader.  The reason why this is necessary is that XP
has nonstandard MBR code, and can look to undocumented data structures
outside the MBR/primary partition table sector for information about
filesystems.



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