On 2012/05/27 09:12 (GMT-0400) James Knott composed:
Roger Luedecke wrote:
I want to dualboot (assuming I can't run STO well under VMware) XP on my openSUSE machine. It ONLY runs openSUSE right now, and I want to install XP without having to murder the current openSUSE installation. I have the XP.
Assuming you have the disk space available, one thing you can count on is Windows will take over the boot process,
Doesn't happen here.
so you'll then have to re-enable the grub boot loader.
Not if you put Grub in an appropriate location in the first place. The appropriate location is not the MBR on a single HD multiboot system or most dual HD multiboot systems. When you have standard MBR code and mark a FAT or NTFS primary active, XP will not touch anything to do with Linux or Grub, meaning Grub will not be disabled by Windows. When you plan ahead by saving the Grub boot sector to a file in a location NTLDR can find, it can chainload to it no less easily than Grub can chainload Windows.
It's always easier to install Windows first, then Linux.
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