Re: dual boot problem

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On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 10:29 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
> On 7/21/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > well I am not expert in the boot loaders but I went through similar
> > problem before in Redhat 9 days.
> >
> > It has something to do with Windows 2000/NT because windows 2000 MBR
> > and Grub is not compatible unlike Windows 98/me/xp, where grub can
> > chain load other operating systems. Whichever you install first,
> > windows 2000 will overwrite the MBR. If you plan to use both Windows
> > 2000 and Linux, you have to use third party boot loader (I guess
> > commercial ones). Since its been long time I forgot which boot loaders
> > are avilable out there. You can search the goole for available tools.
The above is not true. Win 2000 and Linux both can be booted from grub,
although it is true that it would be better the first time if the
Windows was installed first. Otherwise using Linux rescue and
grub-install will make it work.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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