On 2010-09-13 04:00, Doug wrote:
I recently tried to find out how to use the XP booter to multi-boot it and one or more Linux systems. I was unsuccessful, altho I seem to remember reading somewhere that it is possible--that was at least three years ago. Microsoft, of course, will not help you to boot a competing system.
I did that with Win-7. The only problem is that windows refuses to detect any bootable partition that is not another type of windows - but there is a freeware utility that does that trick. I prefer to leave the windows booter, or a default booter, in the MBR. When installing linux, I setup grub in the partition, not in the MBR (which I leave intact), and then mark the partition as bootable. When installing or restoring windows it will mark its own partition as bootable, "killing" grub, but it is trivial to revert the active signal to the linux one. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))