On Wednesday 18 August 2004 06:21, RAT wrote: > I had some issues with Fedora Core 2 and WinXP - nice to search > redhat bugzilla for that cos that have now clue why that happens > (NTFS partition is modified and WinXP can't boot) > > R > > On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:27, Paul Smith wrote: > > RAT wrote: > > > Just be careful while instaling Mandrak 10 or Fedora Core 2. It > > > killed my XP twice and I had really serious problems to get my > > > data from NTFS partition back. > > > > > >>> Is there some way of re-starting from Linux to MS Windows (dual > > >>> computer)? I am aware that I can achieve that with "end of > > >>> session" plus reboot, but is there a more direct way? > > >> > > >> Paul, not sure I understand your question, but how about setting > > >> up a boot loader like grub and just selecting whichever OS you > > >> choose at boot time? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Guy: what I am wanting is to be able of re-starting onto MS Windows > > from Mandrake WITHOUT making MS Windows the default (at the boot > > time) operating system and WITHOUT having to select manually MS > > Windows at the boot time. > > > > RAT: Thanks for your alert. I have Windows2000 and Mandrake 10 > > running together in the same computer with no problem at all, since > > long ago. > > > > Paul > > I am a newbie also but I don't think you can do what you want. You will have to go through a reboot with some kind of boot manager to switch from linux to windows though I don't know why you would want to go to windows at all. -- Regards; Hoyt Registered Linux User #363264 http://counter.li.org
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