Quoting Holden Hao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> In Grub, you add the following entry to your /etc/grub.conf:
> 
> title WinXP
> rootnoverify (hd0,1)  # 0 refers to your ide drive, 1 refers to your partition 
>number. Numbering starts from zero.
> chainloader +1

Please note that none of this has anything to do with reading the NTFS
filesystem.  It's just the standard trick of controlling multiboot from
the MBR.

> NTFS read support in RH is not enabled by default.

In fact, RH's kernel omits the driver entirely.  (The link I posted
earlier has drop-in RPM replacements, however.)

They haven't said why.  Possible reasons:  1.  Legal threats from
Microsoft against several NTFS driver coders.  2.  History of people 
damaging their NTFS filesystems when they enabled write support in the
first-generation driver.  

The second-generation driver doesn't pose that latter problem, since
(for now) it includes no write-mode code whatsoever.  It's also
SMP-clean.  So, my guess is that it's the legal exposure.

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