Re: [SLUG] Potato & Win XP compatibility

[Steve Downing <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Wednesday, 13 February 2002, you wrote:

>Adam Bogacki was once rumoured to have said:
>> Hi, I was wondering if anyone has experienced boot compatibility 
issues
>> with Potato and XP in a multi-drive, multi-boot system.
>I have a Dual boot testing/XP system at home.  both my boot partitions
>are on the first disk.  I have grub installed in the boot sector of my
>linux root partition, and use the standard XP/NT MBR, and have the
>active flag set to boot my debian partition first.

AFAIK the secret is to choose a Bootloader which can understand NTFS 
partitions and boot them.  The LILO that comes with Potato can't 
(from memory). Niether could CHOS ( I haven't updated it in a while,
I swap my NT disk in and out)

Later versions of GRUB or LILO from testing/unstable SHOULD be able 
to boot the NTFS partition I belive.

Steve

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