[Nottingham] dual boot conflicts

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Fri Jul 2 18:40:16 BST 2004


James Gibbon wrote:
> Does anyone else experience difficulties when booting from one OS to
> another in a dual-boot setup?
[...]
> Either OS will start up fine after powering down all the way then powering
> back up.  I don't think I ever had to do this when Slackware was installed.
> 
> Any ideas what causes this, or how to avoid it?  Are XP and Fedora fighting
[...]

Only wild guess is pnp playing up... Make sure that you have your BIOS 
set for "OS is NOT pnp aware" or equivalent. Also try disabling 'legacy' 
USB support.

The dual booting /should/ work fine.

Good luck,
Martin

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