Juha Laiho wrote:
> Jason Zheng <jzheng@jpl.nasa.gov> said:
>
>>tom wrote:
>>
>>>I have an XP machine that I want to set up for
>>>dual booting. I have done this several times
>>>in the past on Win 95 and Win 98 machines using
>>>fips and lilo.
>>>
>>>Is there any changes with the XP machine?
>>>
>>>Also what is the best method to repartition the HD,
>>>fip, parted or something else?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I had the same situation as you, and I stupidly put the boot loader in
>>MBR. Now my windows xp partition cannot boot any more.
>>My configuration: 60GB HD, 30->WinXP, 30->SuSE9.1
>
>
> Hmm, strange. I just installed WXP on a disk, reserving some room for
> Linux, and then proceeded to install SuSE 9.1 on the remaining space,
> accepting SuSE defaults for partitioning and boot setup. Ended up with
> grub boot menu that lets me boot Windows or Linux (and then the regular
> extra choices of failsafe boot and memtest). No problems whatsoever.
> Disk is regular IDE (though hung off of a HPT370 controller, but not
> in any RAID mode, just a regular single disk).
Where did you install your bootloader? Was there an option?