> > Hi, I was wondering if anyone has experienced boot > compatibility issues > with Potato and XP in a multi-drive, multi-boot system. >
I haven't used XP with Linux on the same box yet; but I have with all the previous flavours of Windows. The simple rule is this - If I installed Windows first, then Linux I never had any troubles. LILO is friendly; just point it at the Windows boot partition and it worked. If I put Linux on first; then Windows next I had problems. Windows overrode LILO and 95/98 I couldn't get to boot to Linux instead. NT/2K you can if you play with the NT bootloader (boot.ini) a bit. Linux is friendly to other OS's, Windows isn't, so install Windows first. Haven't used XP yet (and hopefully won't have to for a long time) so YMMV. S. :) PLEASE NOTE: This email transmission is confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, you must not use, disclose or print this transmission and you should delete it from your system. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
