what's your menu.lst! On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 16:10, Darren Gamble wrote: > Good day, > > I'm not on the Grub development team, but my machine uses Grub and boots to > both Win2000 (NTFS) and Redhat. The Redhat installer takes care of the > setup. > > So yes, it appears that it does. =) > > ============================ > Darren Gamble > Planner, Regional Services > Shaw Cablesystems GP > 630 - 3rd Avenue SW > Calgary, Alberta, Canada > T2P 4L4 > (403) 781-4948 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Does Grub Boot Windows XP on NTFS? > Importance: High > > > Hello GRUB team, > > I've recently acquired another notebook that, like my previous Compaq > Presario, comes with Windows pre-installed. This time is the XP with NTFS > partition. So I will use Partition Magic to shrink it so that I can have Red > Hat 7.2 installed on it as well. Since BootMagic won't work because it > cannot be installed on a NTFS partition I wonder if I have GRUB installed on > the MBR it would boot Win XP as well. > > Previously I've used LILO and I've noticed that if the ext partition is not > on the first part of the HD it won't boot. So, because of that, I've used > partition Magic to move Windows ME to the end of the HD and had Linux on the > first part of the HD. I believe that is not a problem with GRUB, right? > > After that, Red Hat released 7.2 which came with GRUB and I've noticed that > it could boot Windows ME as well which LILO didn't. > > My question is, since Win XP is quite different from Win ME and that it is > installed on a NTFS partition, can I use GRUB on the MBR so that it could > boot Linux and XP? > > Is it possible? > > Thank you, > > Carlos Fernando Scheidecker Antunes. > The University of Utah. > Linux User #207984 > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
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