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Posted by tiM` on April 19, 2005, 7:43 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:42:09 +0000, ROBERT POLLARD wrote:
> Hi,
> About 6 months ago I had a problem with this. I installed linux to dual
> boot with XP and it had altered the MBR in such a way that XP refused to
> boot or even be seen! Not sure if they have repaired this know, but at the
> time the Linux crowd were blaming MS for using such an outdated method of
> reading the MBR. I blamed Linux, as their packaging quite clearly states
> that it can be dual booted when following their instructions.
>
> I would pose this question on a Linux forum to see if this issue has been
> fixed.
>
> RobP
>> [quoted text muted]
If you're worried about using lilo or grub as the boot mangler, let the
ntbootldr do the job, and chuck the linux boot loader into the beginning
of the linux partition. It's pretty straight forward. Google for
instructions.
--
TimW
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