On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 17:12 -0400, Mike Zingale wrote:
I just did a clean install of Fedora 9 on my laptop. I had the
install use any Linux partitions. Usually I would tell it to put grub
on the boot partition install of on the MBR, but I was not presented
that option with Fedora 9.
However, it seems to have just magically worked -- my Windows XP boots
if I select "other" from the grub menu. I used to think that grub
overwrote the Windows MBR and that this could not work. Is this a
recent change with grub or somehow just an anomaly?
That's always been the way I've made dual-boot boxes. Windows doesn't
need to have control of the MBR to be bootable. BIOS loads GRUB, GRUB
loads up the next thing.
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2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686
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