Bryce Verdier wrote: > I can say that back int the redhat 6.3 days, i was able to get redhat > to boot from the NT4 loader. And i could have sworn that there was a > HOWTO on the LDP, but i can't find it now. > > So at least 5 or 6 years ago it could have been done. But with such > nice bootloaders as grub and lilo, why would you want to bother with > XP's... just create a boot disk for XP, just in case you hose grub, > and you'll always be safe. > > bryce
If grub gets hosed, you can boot a Win 98 CD or a boot floppy and run fdisk /mbr on it. I recently took a hard drive of mine out of a friends computer that was dual booting and that was what I did. Now windoze XP boots up like Linux was never there. I'm not sure if you can do that from the win XP CD or not though. I'm not a windoze person. I don't have and never had windoze, ever. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
