[Wylug-discuss] Mandrake and WinXP

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, James Holden wrote:


> You can boot Linux with XP's boot loader, but it's not the best way to
> do it.

Just out of interest, why is it not the best way to do it?  If you've got p1
as windows and p2 as linux, you end up with (normally):

MBR GRUB
p1  NTLDR
p2  NOTHING

If you went the other way, wouldn't you just have:

MBR (standard MS boot off active partion code)
p1  NTLDR
p2  GRUB

Are you any worse off?

jh

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